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Wayland: i3 to Sway migration

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2022

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I started migrating my graphical workstations to Wayland, specifically migrating from i3 to Sway. This is mostly to address serious graphics bugs in the latest Framwork laptop, but also something I felt was inevitable.

The current status is that I've been able to convert my i3 configuration to Sway, and adapt my systemd startup sequence to the new environment. Screen sharing only works with Pipewire, so I also did that migration, which basically requires an upgrade to Debian bookworm to get a nice enough Pipewire release. My biggest irritant right now is that the tray icons (e.g. Network Manager) are not clickable (!?).

I'm testing Wayland on my laptop, but I'm not using it as a daily driver because I first need to upgrade to Debian bookworm there.

The rest of this page documents why I made the switch, how it happened, and what's left to do.

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