Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.
Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?
I’ve played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.
Most of my machines are KDE on X, but I have one where I’ve been feeling stuff out in Wayland-land. The most appealing thing I’ve tried has been Hyprland with Waybar. It’s a little bit of a kit in traditional WM fashion, but easy to configure from straightforward config files, fairly light, and not “Just like this X WM, but broken because of missing Wayland functionality” (I know, I know, it’s not technically Wayland deficiencies, its “not yet complete extensions”, because it’s all extensions, the Wayland protocol itself does almost nothing).
I’ve been using Kitty for a terminal emulator and it’s pleasing as well.
I haven’t found a launcher I love, I have fuzzel right now and the only major issue is it doesn’t currently support mouse interaction, and I prefer a “use whichever input device your hand is on at the time” to keyboard-only.
How does hyperland configuration compare to sway? Or is it exactly the same?
They’re both simple text formats, but Hyprland uses a “key = value” type config with section labels. Sway is largely compatible with i3 config files which are more like an unstructured script.
I like sways configuration file more because the naming on hyprland isn’t stellar. But hyprland has a config for anything I’d ever need which is awesome.
Have personally been using KDE Wayland on EndeavourOS for a while, and It’s been free of major bugs save for some games going to a black screen after tabbing out of them.