I guess I can either set the laptop to lowdpi and deal
or set up Wayland and Sway and uh
that sounds like pain
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I guess I can either set the laptop to lowdpi and deal
or set up Wayland and Sway and uh
that sounds like pain
@rixx or get a new external display
full marks to Sway – they get as close to a drop-in replacement for i3 as possible. I expected lots of config changes, but the only things I had to touch were things they can't change (have to set up some input and output config, changed startup etc).
super impressive and rare to see something live up to the drop-in replacement claim, very cool
@rixx It's cool that it exists but such a shame that it needs to. I hadn't even considered that my obscure window manager (notion wm) wouldn't work on Wayland, though I may just switch to KDE next time anyway.
@rixx worked for me also surprisingly well, like a lot, would recommend.
Kanshi for different display setups is nice but I need to run it manullay once after reboot.
Also Wayland + keepass autotyping (into terminal, popups and websites) is actually an unresolved problem on my system.
@smtw I use pass, and I had to look around a bit for an input thingie because rofi-pass seems dubiously maintained, but there turned out to be an up-to-date working fork. Now I only need to fix screenshots/screen recordings and I'm all set, I think.
@rixx screenshot / screenshare: not yet tested....
Pass: I see, will play around.
@smtw My screenshot workflow is basically "press shortcut, select area, image is saved to screenshots directory with timestamp filename and also uploaded to my filebin, the filebin url is put in my clipboard", which is very handy, and I've got it working again: https://github.com/rixx/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/screenshot-filebin
@rixx Have you seen https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri? Switched to it a year ago, after >10 years of Xorg + i3. It's so good & smooth out of the box! Very strong "okay, I guess it's Wayland time now" moment for me.
@blinry Is that … a wm for people who love TiddlyWiki? because it feels like it's breaking my brain in a similar way.
I just switched to sway to get fractional scaling, which (apart from some rtfm moments) "just worked", which is hella impressive.
speaking of impressive, Niri looks impressive too, especially for being only two years old! I think my biggest worry would be migrating all my i3bar/py3status stuff, plus my ingrained habits of jumping directly to workplaces with key combos …
@rixx fractional scaling on sway works fine. Some Apps, esp. X11 apps look funny, but hi-dpi screens can be used with scaling.
@snaums yeah, that's the draw of sway! but switching wms sounds painful
@rixx depends. Are you using i3 now? Then it's alright-ish. Most of the configuration file can just be copied over. Otherwise. Well, have fun :D
@snaums I wasn't willing to believe that (people tend to say "drop-in replacement" when they really mean "90% replacement for our expected use cases, 70% at most for yours), but apart from some things they have to change (input/output config), it … just works? I'm very, very impressed.
@rixx I would have hoped/expected that Wayland does the OOTB. 🥹
@rjayasinghe yeah, but new Window Manager sounds like pain, even with professed drop-in replacement status. maybe I'm too pessimistic
@rixx fwiw, for me migrating to sway was a bit of pain from getting used to some new things, but I had a functional setup pretty much immediately and the rest happened over time and it was absolutely worth it
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