Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released

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&quot;Experimental Nvidia support has been deprecated since its inception, and has now been removed entirely. Please use nouveau and consider future purchases from GPU vendors that support open source. Other proprietary drivers are also unsupported.&quot;<p>How is nouveau doing this days compared to the proprietary drivers of NVidia ?

I know this is about sway, but I feel I can&#x27;t pass up this opportunity to profess my undying love for i3. The learning curve is relatively minor for such a slim powerful system I&#x27;m truly amazed. I really can&#x27;t thank the original author(s) enough.<p>RE: Sway, I&#x27;m glad they hit this milestone, I have a friend who is using it and he claims it&#x27;s almost as good, (although he hasn&#x27;t found a way to do -gaps yet..).<p>Last time I used Wayland&#x2F;Sway I couldn&#x27;t get decent font rendering. Has the situation improved?

Sway is great -- for my purposes (which are mostly arranging terminal emulators) it&#x27;s been indistinguishable from i3 for well over a year. Unfortunately some of the systems I use are burdened with Nvidia cards, which don&#x27;t seem to work well with Wayland no matter which driver I use. (It&#x27;s even worse with Gnome!) Anywhere I have AMD or Intel graphics, I use Sway very happily.

Another interesting project which is similar to awesome: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;way-cooler.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;way-cooler.org&#x2F;</a>

Congrats to the sway developers on this milestone. i3 is one of the &#x27;killer apps&#x27; of the linux ecosystem and the developers of sway are doing god&#x27;s work by translating i3 for the wayland compositor.<p>Excited to use this soon if it lands in Debian 10 Buster.

I am really looking forward to using Sway. I briefly tried the beta and it worked very nicely. However, one problem that prevents me from switching completely is that with 2x scaling, XWayland apps are scaled up from a lower DPI, resulting in very blurry rendering.<p>As far as I understand, this is a problem in XWayland and GNOME uses a hack to make XWayland applications render without scaling (since X11 Qt&#x2F;Gtk+ applications use their own scaling). But it makes using Firefox et al. way more convenient to use.

Am I seeing this right? Third party screen capture? Practically the only reason I&#x27;m still on i3 instead of sway is sharing my screen (as I work from home and do a few video calls a week).<p>edit: spelling. I am apparently terrible at leaving comments from my phone.

My current setup is to run xmonad as my window manager within an otherwise normal Gnome session. Is there a way to do this with Sway, possibly with some other desktop environment if I had to?

I use i3 currently. I might remove the old nvidia card from my box and purge the nvidia drivers from my system. The Intel graphics will be good enough. I run Gentoo but I don&#x27;t want my graphical stuff to be high maintenance. Can anyone comment on whether it&#x27;s worth it to move to wayland&#x2F;sway?