THthrow_await·Dec 15, 2025
The architecture is fundamentally broken when you are using multiple window managers / desktop environments https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/363
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dunst-project / dunst
dunst
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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7 sourcessway laptop user here (for almost 2 years I think?).
I spent a little while on this, but I migrated from i3, so I just ported every little section of my config bit by bit.
In terms of battery bar and other "bar" type things, I use waybar[0] which basically does all the things you'd expect by default (just install and it "works").
For multi-monitor, config, I initially setup with wdisplays[1] (think arandr for wayland) and then manually copied the positions into my sway config. Monitor positioning was the only thing I needed to setup (and telling it that one monitor was HDPI) and then all of the scaling and everything worked perfectly. This was my biggest selling point for wayland, I now get nice crisp fonts and application scaling works nicely (which was not the case with X).
volume control from the keyboard took no time, just a couple of
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There was some stuff to do with the clipboard (wl-clipboard[2]) and screenshots (grim[3] + slurp[4]) that required some setup, but again, just a few lines, and didn't take much mental load.
Oh and I needed to change my notifications daemon(dunst[5]), and chose to change my program launcher to one with a nicer interface and cleaner fonts (wofi[6]).
I think that's all the tweaking that I did. Oh, and I needed to do something with pipewire to sort out screensharing at the start, don't remember that too well though...
[0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
[1] https://github.com/artizirk/wdisplays
[2] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
[3] https://github.com/emersion/grim
[4] https://github.com/emersion/slurp
[5] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
[6] https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
Dunst is native wayland since early 2021[1].
Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.
[1] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/264
[2] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
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2 points · Open discussionDunst – Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
1 points · Open discussionYes, 1.17.1214. I'm using dunst [0] for notifications. Perhaps dunst is too minimalistic to support the necessary features?
I'll send you an email to follow up on this issue.
[0]: https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
In Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for SpotifySame here to both. Only real conflict is with dunst [0] which also likes to use Ctrl-Space by default.
[0] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
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