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sway 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

Screenshots works in Sway, it has been there for years. Tray icons as well (it depends of the bar you use though, but it works with the included bar swaybar and waybar). you can use grim + slurp for screenshots https://github.com/emersion/grim but Flameshot works as well (for example). Edit: you should have a look at the wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway

I don't wanna poop on their parade, but haven't Wayland screenshotters been around for a while? https://github.com/emersion/grim That one has at least been around for long enough, and has worked perfectly under Sway for long enough, that I had to look up its name because I had it bound to a hotkey and had forgotten what it was called.

nice to have some alternatives to grim[1] on Sway. Guess most people won't care, however I would not want my screenshot tool to be able to access the network. [1] https://github.com/emersion/grim

Yay for wlroots based Wayland compositors! Besides the tiling Sway there's also the stacking Wayfire[0] that is from the same family, but modeled after Compiz (blur, desktop cube and good old wobbly windows are all there) and highly configurable. I use it with Waybar[1], wf-dock[2], Sirula[3] as a launcher and a bunch of other small tools like Gammastep[4] (fork of Redshift) for white balance adjustment, grim & slurp [5] for screenshots and mako[6] for notifications. [7] It's a very DIY-y experience, but it's meant to be (if you want something pre-configured you can barely change try Gnome). The combination of getting it just right and the Ikea effect makes for a pretty rewarding result (I also maintain a list of the available desktop tools you can use when on a wlroots based compositor for your DIY needs [8]). The vision for the future i

Yes? https://github.com/emersion/grim

I use grim[0] under Wayland, and it can grab things off my screen. [0] https://github.com/emersion/grim

Was the pun intended? https://github.com/emersion/grim

I am not the author of dwl. Since dwl is based on wlroots (just like the popular Sway) it already supports making screenshots using grim[1] and screencasts using wf-recorder[2]. You can try out dwl from within your current WM. The default modkey is Alt. If you want to use the Super key, change `#define MODKEY WLR_MODIFIER_ALT` in `config.h` to `#define MODKEY WLR_MODIFIER_LOGO` and recompile. The default terminal emulator is kitty but you can change `termcmd` to alacritty if you want. Currently, only native Wayland applications run on it. You can enable experimental Wayland support for Firefox with `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1`, see Running programs natively under Wayland in Sway Wiki[3]. Do not hover over the edges of windows – this will crash dwl. [1]: https://github.com/emersion/grim [2]: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder [3]: https://gi

>like I have a script that OCR a region of the screen when I press a button (the coordinates depend of the app that runs) This is easy to do. Something like grim to take the screenshot of whatever region you want: https://github.com/emersion/grim And calculate the coordinates you need by querying the window manager. In sway (i3 compatible tiling WM) that would be: $ swaymsg -t get_tree To get a JSON of all the windows currently open and do whatever math is needed. You can also do a hand selection using slurp: https://github.com/emersion/slurp It works together with grim like this: $ grim -g "$(slurp)" screenshot.png Having recently moved from X to Wayland there are still some things missing sometimes but they're not many. If you want a DE at least GNOME and I think KDE as well are making the switch reasonably seamless. And there are some