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X-Date: 2021-09-18T08:33:18Z
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X-Note-Id: b9beca4c-150f-4002-999b-411d25432a69
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Subject: 6 months with Wayland + Sway
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X-Slug: 6_months_with_wayland
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I've spent the last 6 months working only in [Sway](https://swaywm.org/) which is a wlroots-based
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tiling WM.
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Here's a list of things that work so far:
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- Browsers. Both Firefox and Chrome have native support for Wayland. I didn't notice any significant bugs so far.
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- Video conferences: Zoom and others.
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- Screen sharing.
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- Fractional scaling. I have a 32" hi-DPI screen, so integer scaling wasn't enough to be comfortable
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- Stability. Sway hasn't crashed a single time on my machine
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- Video decoding acceleration in Firefox. YouTube on Firefox was a known CPU hog under Xorg. It's no longer the
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case with Wayland.
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What doesn't work
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- Clipboard is lost when you close the window that the text is copied from. This is something I had to work around
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by writing a script that re-populates the clipboard with the latest copied text.
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- Rewriting keyboard input. If you want to use Cmd-C to copy text instead of Ctrl-C, you're out of luck. It was
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possible on Xorg with a tool, but not on Wayland, because of the increased security of Wayland that prevents you from
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having "keyloggers".
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- Laptop screen sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep, unless I switch to a physical console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then
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back. I think this is a problem of swaylock or sway itself, because it doesn't happen in Gnome wayland session for me.
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So far, I'd say that if you want to roll with wayland, your best option is Gnome, where things just work. I'm adventurous
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enough to go with Sway and fix or work around things that break.
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