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I remember being endlessly entertained by the rotating cube animation between workspaces in the old Beryl implementation.
I told my wife, "but does your Windows do this?" Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, "I don't care." And that was that.
I shall tell this story to my grandkids.
"but does your Windows do this?" Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, "I don't care."
Wow, that sums up my Linux life pretty well actually
I think I accomplished a similar effect on my first linux distro a long time ago with a program called "compiz" (iirc). "I'm so frickin 1337," I whispered under my breath. Nobody cared except me, though, lol.
IIRC Compiz was a fork of Beryl or the other way around. I could be wrong though.
Last I checked you can still do the cube in kwin under plasma.
It was gone from Plasma for a bit, however it'll be back in the next upcoming Plasma 6 release!
at least wobbly windows stuck around though. i've had that on for like 10 years
Yep, same! Some of my friends have told me it's a bit "silly" for me to have it enabled - but there's plenty of bad things that occur on a daily basis in my life, I do not think there's a single problem with having some wobbly windows as a small vice to enjoy haha.
Woohoo!
Nobody cared except me, though, lol.
Life in a nutshell...
check wayfire :)
Oh yeah! That's ticking a few boxes for when I eventually switch from X(11).
There was a jailbreak tweak for iOS that mimicked Beryl, it was so cool.
Damn, English is weird 🤣
It sure is :D
And that's how you create an Arch Unstable user
Choo choo UBUNTU
Choo choo proprietary stuff and holding security unless you subscribe to services. :P
On Hyprland for a few days now and feeling the same way.
Amen. I'd install Hyperland on both of my "main" PC and on my Rpi 4 but my rpi 4 (still) has sway and it "just werks" so eeeeeh
damn, Hyprland looks great 😅
Hyprland is fantastic unless you have Nvidia
I have Nvidia in both my machines
I just got into wayfire after using Hyprland and nobody prepared me for the cylinder. I will open windows and wait for the screensaver just to see the rotating cylinder. So much better than the cube
My daily driver is Sway on Arch. I'll help shout out the glory of this setup.
Sway has become a joy to use over time as I've fucked with my config but now I feel like it's more boring too I barely ever feel the need or want to massively change anything 🥲
i think that's called liking your current config
Ew gross
Using a tiling wm and wanting to move windows around? 🤨
It's dynamic :)
I'm with you. One day I was like "I wonder if Wayland's mature enough to use as my daily driver now" and installed Sway on a Raspberry Pi. I used DWM before, but now Sway's my default.
The only issue I still have is that I wish Zoom and ffmpeg supported the wlroots-specific screen capture methods. Those are the only things lacking that are keeping me on i3/X11 on the machine I use for work.
Do managers like this lend themselves to better performance? Or is it just more for looks/easy tiling?
Both i3 and sway are very lightweight so you do get good performance, but it's the easy tiling / no-nonsense looks that appeal to me.
Fedora Sericea is my current daily driver. Loving it so far. I've used Sway, River, and Hyprland on Arch, Fedora, and NixOS. The combination of an immutable system augmented by flatpaks and distrobox are supporting my goal to never wipe the drive again.
Sway is more stable and lightweight for me than Hyprland. I don't use Nvidia hardware at all. The lead Dev on Hyprland is a treasure though. 10/10 for that human being.
Just switched last night!!!
So far it's been great, but I need a way to migrate over my keybindings from xmodmap. I tried searching but everywhere I go gives a different answer. Can anyone help guide me in a direction? I'm primarily looking to remap caps to escape/control on hold. Would be great to remap some unused keys on my laptops keyboard to media keys as well. Thanks!!
Have you tried the instructions on their github page?
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#keyboard-layout
I haven't tried that, but would be happy about a feedback from you if it works. So that I know what to do if I switch from Herbstluft to Sway one day.
Ah... Read the docs, should have known ¯\_(ツ)_/¯