I’m sorry if this question seems obvious, but I really don’t want to break anything on my computer.
I’m doing great with my workstation, and I’m very happy. But I’m a bit concerned about my visual impairment. I really need the keyboard for myself.
I spend most of my time on the computer using Emacs, Firefox, and a console. Because of this, I’ve been thinking about tiling for a long time. I’m especially interested in Wayland tiling.
I’ve seen the sway spin option, but I haven’t dared to install it in case I don’t get used to it. I’ve thought about adding this option to my workstation, though.
I’m not an expert, but I think all you need to do is install the swayvm group and the sway-config-fedora package. I’m sorry, but I think we don’t need to install swaywm-extended group. I don’t see the need for things like sddm.
I’d love to have the option of using and configuring Sway from the spin base.
I would really appreciate any recommendations or links to documentation you might have.
Depending on the software packages being used, there are some conflicting filenames – e.g. “imv” is the default image viewer in the Sway spin, but one of the tools in the “renameutils” package also shares the same filename. It’s not necessarily a deal breaker, but something to keep in mind.
Because you’re not sure yet if Sway will be your preferred desktop environment, consider the following alternatives:
If your computer has at least 8GB of RAM and can spare 4GB of disk space, install Sway in a virtual machine.
Then just select the sway session from your login manager or type sway from a TTY console at startup.
If you dont install the groups / packages apaet from sway, a few things wont work and you’ll have to install them manually (like polkit). But in general most things work great, amd sway is rock solid and easy to use (once you look at sway cheatsheet or i3 manual).
Thank you very much for the answers.
I’m currently trying out the virtual version, and everything’s fine.
I’ll probably make the switch this week and share it here.