Sway 1.0 RC1 Rolls Out With Wayland Clipboard Managers, Swayidle/Swaylock Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Sway 1.0 RC1 Rolls Out With Wayland Clipboard Managers, Swayidle/Swaylock Changes

The big Sway 1.0 Wayland compositor release is upon us with now having weekly release candidates until the code-base is deemed stable enough to officially ship...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sway-1.0-RC1-Released

[Azpegath]

Hurray! I just started out dabbling with Sway and I'm looking forward to the 1.0 release.

[stingray454]

Does Sway handle mixed DPI screens well? (ie, for example a laptop with 4k screen connected to a 1080p external screen)

[arti]

afaik sway has fractional per output scaling https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#hidpi

[miabrahams]

Does Sway handle mixed DPI screens well? (ie, for example a laptop with 4k screen connected to a 1080p external screen)

The author claims Sway has the best high and mixed-DPI support of any Linux desktop environment.

[andrei_me]

Michael tildearrow missing word?

"With the Sway 1.0 RC1, it marks the point of being considered [stable?] and no new features being permitted"

[stingray454]

The author claims Sway has the best high and mixed-DPI support of any Linux desktop environment.

Sweet. As I understand it the Wayland design is capable of solving the underlying issue with mixed DPI that we get in X, but so far I don't think the support of wayland DE's (KDE and such) is entirely there. Have to give this a try.