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[–] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Sway...

I guess it's boring but it's never broken on me in the 5ish years I've been using it since switching from i3.

I read all this hype about hyprland but sway does what I want and need as a tiling window manager, and simply see no need to even try hyprland.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Hyprland has several practical features that Sway does not have. I have used both extensively and I stayed at Hyprland because of the following:

    • DynamicBSP layout
    • Moving windows without changing layout structure is easy
    • Special workspaces(scratch pads)
      • They can be toggled
      • One can launch apps when opened empty
      • They can automatically close when the last window closes.

    Things Sway has that Hyprland does not:

    • Closing all windows contained in workspace
    • Moving all windows from one workspace to another

    I have thought coming back to Sway because of the performance and because of Hyprland's the silly default wallpapers and splash screens, but those features hold me back.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    With lua you can get the lacking features too.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I looked at the documentation and I'm not sure how to do it, do you have a example to target windows in the current workspace? I would really appreciate that.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    I saw some cool features I'm kinda missing in river (especially the wide range of compatible tools and stability, performance) and I really want to like it.

    I'd actually bother setting it up if it had dynamic (master slave) layouts. But I can't for the love of god find out if it exists or if it's just a manual tiler. Does it?

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