On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 03:49:43PM +0200, Maarten van Gompel wrote:
> Hi Nick et al,
>
> With Sxmo we're currently also moving towards wayland (we'll have to
> reinvent what the X in our name means then). We found that, especially
> on the Pinephone, the performance under Wayland is simply superior to
> that on X11. We settled on sway to replace dwm, as dwl still lacks the
> maturity we need and sway has that going for it. I agree it comes with
> maybe a few too many bells & whistles as we'd like. Though of course, by
> definition a wayland compositor has a considerably higher complexity
> than an X11 window manager anyway.
>
> We will also keep supporting X and the suckless stack, but
> Wayland will become the default in the very near future for us.
> Unfortunately this means we had to look for comparable alternatives for
> the suckless software stack we've grown attached to. But fortunately
> there are people taking up wayland-focused initiatives with a similar
> philosophy. Thus far we have:
>
> dwm -> sway (granted, not the same thing)
> svkbd -> wvkbd (see https://github.com/jjsullivan5196/wvkbd/pull/2)
> st -> foot
> dmenu -> bemenu
>
If only there was an equivalent to lemonbar and bspwm+sxhkd (not possible from
what I understand; unless the compositor launches the binary, maybe?).
https://github.com/majestrate/wterm looks like a better concept but foot is
maintained and doesn't bundle wld, at least.
Received on Tue Aug 31 2021 - 17:43:51 CEST