Sway
Infrastructure
window manager
SHOW HN2016
163points
50comments
#197of 2,264 in 2016
Top 9%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Great to have i3 compatibility on Wayland
From 3 comments
I'm a big fan of i3, and I'm really glad someone has built a similar WM for Wayland. And it's compatible?? Amazing. /g/ would be proud.
jitl on HNI've been using Sway for a few months now, and I think it's great. I'd recommend it to anyone who uses i3 and wants to try Wayland.
sevensor on HNSo glad this is to make i3 work under Wayland. I jumped around with Tiled Window Managers for several years and it stopped 3 years ago when I started using i3. i3 has the best…
baldfat on HN
Objections
Many X applications run poorly under XWayland
From 2 comments
Thanks :) Things are mostly stable. Sway doesn't quite have all the features of i3, but it's getting there, and for bonus points it reads your i3 config file and interprets it…
sevensor on HNFirefox and Chrome currently do not work on Wayland without Xwayland. But Libreoffice and Gnome work. You also have to use open source drivers for Wayland to work, so no Steam.
vamur on HN
Missing features such as floating windows
From 1 comment
Thanks :) Things are mostly stable. Sway doesn't quite have all the features of i3, but it's getting there, and for bonus points it reads your i3 config file and interprets it…
sevensor on HN
Nvidia proprietary drivers unsupported
From 2 comments
Mostly usable unless you use nVidia or AMD with the binary drivers. AMD are going to be supported in the near future via their open-source amdgpu driver (for GPUs from 2015…
anon4 on HNFirefox and Chrome currently do not work on Wayland without Xwayland. But Libreoffice and Gnome work. You also have to use open source drivers for Wayland to work, so no Steam.
vamur on HN
Questions
How usable is Wayland at the moment?
From 1 comment
How usable is wayland at the moment?
KnightHawk3 on HN
Does Steam gaming work under Wayland?
From 2 comments
How possible is steam based gaming in that setup?
Svenstaro on HNFirefox and Chrome currently do not work on Wayland without Xwayland. But Libreoffice and Gnome work. You also have to use open source drivers for Wayland to work, so no Steam.
vamur on HN
Alternatives named
i3 and i3-gaps
From 2 comments
What advantage does this have over traditional i3(gaps)? i3 seems to perform well on older hardware and in VMs.
mmgutz on HNi3 doesn't work natively on Wayland, sway does.
tbirdz on HN
Gnome Shell on Wayland
From 1 comment
Better than you think. Every other time or so I log in in Gnome Shell in Wayland mode. Thanks to xwayland you can run the majority of X.org applications without much problems in…
m45t3r on HN