Linux @lemmy.ml

1y ago

on arch btw.

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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
  
  Does your Windows do this? doesn't crash
  But seriously, yesterday I cloned my main partition to a new laptop into an LVM volume on LUKS. Because I did not have any way of putting the new NVMe and old SATA SSD into one machine, I just used netcat over an ad hoc network.
  undefined
  
  nc -l 10000 > /dev/main/root
  on the new Laptop and
  undefined
  
  cat /dev/sda3 | nc 10.31.69.1 10000 -q 0
  on the old one. Worked perfectly. Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots.
- 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.
  
  Nobody cared except me, though, lol.
  Life in a nutshell...
- check wayfire :)
  https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
  
  Oh yeah! That's ticking a few boxes for when I eventually switch from X(11).
- I don't care.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  I don't care
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  I wonder if thats based on a real story....
- There was a jailbreak tweak for iOS that mimicked Beryl, it was so cool.

- Choo choo debian+flatpak. Rock solid OS with the latest software. :)
- And that's how you create an Arch Unstable user
- This is the way.
  Choo choo mtherfcker
  
  Absolutely obliterated.
- Choo choo UBUNTU
  
  Choo choo proprietary stuff and holding security unless you subscribe to services. :P

This seems like a good place to plug !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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
- A couple days ago I tried Hyprland just to see what it was like. I've been on XFCE for over a decade and expected to play with Hyprland for a couple hours, go "Huh, that's cool", and uninstall it, but I think the switch may be permanent. It's fantastic
- Hyprland is better if you’re on Nvidia as well.
  Mainly because if you ask for help with Sway on Nvidia then people basically tell you to fuck off and call you a cunt.
  For real tho, they’ll actually chastise you just for asking a question.
- damn, Hyprland looks great 😅
  
  Hyprland is fantastic unless you have Nvidia
  I have Nvidia in both my machines

My daily driver is Sway on Arch. I'll help shout out the glory of this setup.

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

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
- Same, I got "bored" so I tried hyprland for a bit on another machine, but when I realised I'd rather have the animations turned off, and was trying to make the config the same as my Sway one, I realised all I needed was Sway. Swaylove4eva
- you can always use a login manager to manage different WM sessions. When i get bored of sway i switch to hyprland, i use different bars for each one too. Its bloat but its fun.

Using a tiling wm and wanting to move windows around? 🤨
- It's dynamic :)
- moving floating windows is caveman stuff really

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.

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.

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.
  
  You know. I was just thinking my window management hasn't been as performant as I'd like. I really need my windows to move a bit faster.

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)/¯
- man 5 sway look for bindsym
  
  Knew I should have read the docs ¯(ツ)/¯
  In my (not very thorough) read, I saw something about the bindings being per application. Maybe I should stop reading documentation before falling asleep

been playing around with sway on my laptop and it's been pretty fun. Tiling window managers are fun!

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