Sway!

Today's win would be that I, after happily running KDE-PLASMAfor a while, again switched window-managers and installed SWAY-WM today, needless to say it solved the issues that I had run into while using KDE Plasme..

Those, even though minor had been annoying enough for me to do the switch.

Plasma had been working well, but I had some grievances with sluggish PDF scrolling in Emacs, something that I had never had before, fonts in Firefox especially had some eerily feel and seem to wobble every now and then and as a bonus, I involuntarily and routinely switched windows and entered text in surprising places, because the track-pad never deactivated while I was typing, even though it was set so in the setting.

Neither of the above had been a deal-breaker, but I also had the feeling that the WM is quite “massive” and it ate quite a few resources.

So, after toying with the idea of going back to SWAY for about a few minutes, I installed it in the morning somewhere between the first and second coffee and was up and running quickly.

And what can I say… Sway is running nicely and smoothly and it seems that things, once everything was set up again, that is after copying all the previous configs, it works just smoothly.

There had been a few minor hiccups, but by now I also have figured how to remap CAPSLOCK to CTRL. I also used my “old” Waybar config (for which I needed to install a few more small packages) and things are now running very much to my satisfaction.

I totally enjoy how little space all of this needs. Not only in terms of downloads, I think the whole download of Sway and it dependencies had been around 10MB and things are running generally much smoother and the whole environment feels much snappier.

Naturally this enables me to fiddle with even more things, as for example with the colour theme that I am using in Sway.

But one thing at a time.

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