I’ve been running Sway full time for about a year. I like it, but out of the box it kind of feels incomplete.
This isn’t a huge issue for me, and I did have a lot of fun overengineering my Swaybar, but I still think it should at least optionally come with some sensible default, like the system clock being added by default.
I've wanted this for i3, but I guess I wasn't sufficiently motivated :)
Given that sway's homepage describes it as a drop-in replacement for i3, I'll try it out tomorrow.
Autostart management is one of the few things I dislike about sway. Over a longer period of trial and error i managed to create a sway config with sleeps to exactly get the kind of layout i want with 10 workspaces and about a dozen apps with some needing to be started in a specific order to properly function.
Only downside is that I have to wait about 45 seconds after login to do anything or else the layout gets screwed up and the window focus gets hijacked by new spawning apps and workspaces.
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Only downside is that I have to wait about 45 seconds after login to do anything or else the layout gets screwed up and the window focus gets hijacked by new spawning apps and workspaces.
It seems this method also has those issues.