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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.

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[–] mister_monster@monero.town 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use sway and foot, which comes with sway.

[–] janWilejan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

foot does not come with sway. why do you think foot comes with sway? foot and sway are unrelated.
they're both good wayland software, though

[–] mister_monster@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty certain that foot is the default terminal for swaywm.

[–] janWilejan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

interesting.
the default config file is basically "Drew's preferences watered down a bit for a general audience"
alacritty used to be Drew's preferred terminal for sway.
sway does not come packaged with any terminal.

[–] Retiring@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Manjaro sway comes with foot. Maybe he/she meant that…

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

fedora sway too