this be an abusive relationship fr
I’ve used hyprland for so long, but one of the updates broke being able to maintain direct scanout while screencasting a window. Used tearing for a bit instead.
But I finally went back to plasma after not using it for two years. And let me say, other than missing tiling, playing counter strike on KDE is always smooth and low input lag.
There are multiple tiling kwin scripts both manual, automatic, even scrolling.
That was the opposite of my experience. For Minecraft at least I went from ~110 FPS in hyprland to ~80 in plasma. Felt like there was an extra frame or two of delay too, but I never measured.
Sway…
I guess it’s boring but it’s never broken on me in the 5ish years I’ve been using it since switching from i3.
I read all this hype about hyprland but sway does what I want and need as a tiling window manager, and simply see no need to even try hyprland.
Hyprland has several practical features that Sway does not have. I have used both extensively and I stayed at Hyprland because of the following:
- DynamicBSP layout
- Moving windows without changing layout structure is easy
- Special workspaces(scratch pads)
- They can be toggled
- One can launch apps when opened empty
- They can automatically close when the last window closes.
Things Sway has that Hyprland does not:
- Closing all windows contained in workspace
- Moving all windows from one workspace to another
I have thought coming back to Sway because of the performance and because of Hyprland’s the silly default wallpapers and splash screens, but those features hold me back.
With lua you can get the lacking features too.
I looked at the documentation and I’m not sure how to do it, do you have a example to target windows in the current workspace? I would really appreciate that.
I’m away from home so can’t use my pc. Lua is a scripting language so you’re not restricted to the wiki or documentation.
I saw some cool features I’m kinda missing in river (especially the wide range of compatible tools and stability, performance) and I really want to like it.
I’d actually bother setting it up if it had dynamic (master slave) layouts. But I can’t for the love of god find out if it exists or if it’s just a manual tiler. Does it?
Honestly, how can there be breaking changes to the config this often. Need to move to niri or mango
The dev lists as features:
- Fast and active development
- Not afraid to provide bleeding-edge features
And includes a breaking changes tracker:
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/8424So yeah, use it if you are OK with that.
I am currently on hyprland, but previously tried to cutover to Niri and I had issues getting steam games to launch consistently. Has Niri gotten a bit easier to use while gaming? I tried maybe 5 months ago and just ended up staying on Hyprland because everything has been working without too many issues.
I’ve been daily driving niri on my gaming PC for about as long as you’ve been away. The only problem I have now and then is games will run in tiled mode, while the game itself is fullscreen, so I’m only seeing the left half of the game. Mod+Shift+F has always fixed it so far, and it’s rare enough that I haven’t looked into making a window rule. I don’t use Steam but I’m not sure that matters.
Havent done much gaming on it so I wouldn’t know, but I hope so. Would probably be a deal breaker
Been on hyprland exclusively for the past year, haven’t had too many issues. Some syntax changes, a deprecated plugin that was forked a few days later.
I knew what I was getting into by daily driving beta software, and with that in mind I’m pleasantly surprised by how few things have actually broken.
EDIT:
Looks like everything is changing over to LUA, just spent an hour converting and tweaking my setup to work with new syntax. Legacy configuration will only be supported for a couple more releases, so might as well convert now.
I just use DMS+mangoWC setup that came with cachyos.
About to risk it all and type yay && flatpak update ✊😔
damn I know that graphing library
It’s pretty cool btw haha Though, I have no idea what it’s called anymore.
i just google something like “arch window manager usage”
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