I have written a bit of slackbuilds, for some sway-based DE components:

https://gitlab.com/Lockywolf/lwfslackbuilds

I call them "unedited", because the quality of those is, frankly speaking, not good at all. Some have broken md5sums, some have bogus profile scripts. However, I have been running sway from sddm for a few days already, and I have to say that the window manager itself is just excellent, I have never seen anything as swift at making layouts.

Overall experience is well... awfully linux. Most features are incomplete, even though surprisingly many work.

The worst thing is that there is some conflict with the kernel and elogind which prevents hibernation from working with `loginctl hibernate`.

AlienBOB's chromium only works with xwayland, which does not bother me too much.
Firefox works, even with video. (Not sure how good is video acceleration and decoding acceleration.)

System tray is semi-working. It mostly works, but xembed systray icons require an xembedsniproxy from kde, and are generally glitchy.
The amount of panel widgets for waybar is so far less than that for xfce4-panel, although there are people working on them. It is amusing how people are trying to replace graphic icons with unicode here and there.

Java, LibreOffice, many other apps work with "minor tweaks". (Depending on your definition of minor.)

swayidle doesn't seem to listen to idle inhibitors (or I haven't found how to turn listening on).

Many programs still use "older protocols", and are either glitchy, or look ugly. A particularly annoying thing is the inability of gnome-keyring to save a password for a password store. (Which worked on xfce4.)

I haven't tried screencasting or even taking screenshots, although there was such a lot of discussion about this, that this is probably solved.

Hope this may encourage someone to build more Slackbuilds and/or fix some programs.

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So, the hibernation problem can be solved by updating to 5.16 from -current.

I'm digging up this post; I went to build Sway again on Slackware15, but 1.7 now requires Meson >= 0.60 and Slackware15 is at 0.59.x. So unless I'm missing something, I don't see a way to get Sway working until 15.1 maybe?

Sway builds ok on -current, although I got some strange errors building against wlroots 15.1 (also required version) that I'd like to examine more. Also, building in qemu/kvm, I got the invisible mouse bug, reported here https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/3189. That WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 fix did not work for me right away.

The only other paper-cut was that the default screen resolution was absurdly small -- maybe 720 or something -- and as far as I can tell the only way to set resolutions in Wayland on the CLI is using Grub kernel options which require a reboot https://davejansen.com/add-custom-re...wayland-gnome/ but maybe someone knows an easier way, lacking a gui.

kanshi might work for that.

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Hi,

for other non-gui options see also https://sr.ht/~emersion/wlr-randr/ and https://github.com/alex-courtis/way-displays

Evo2.

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