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.
