Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support

[johanb]

Sad to see that the tray support for d-bus menu icons is still not merged.
Quite annoying that I can't interact with some of my tray icons without this fix.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/5161

[Vistaus]

i3 / Sway is also fairly competent as a floating WM. It has a title bar you can move the window with and borders that you can drag to resize the window with.

What more do people want?

But not for long. Soon Phoronix commenters will take over and remove everything floating

[evasb]

Does anybody know of a way to configure Sway so that it defaults to opening new windows in "floating" mode instead of tiling? I can't stand tiling.

Hikari looks like a better alternative for a minimal stacking compositor.

[royce]

Tabbed mode is not a thing that's separate from tiling. Tabs are simply sub-workspaces, nothing more. Within each tab, tiling also occurs, even if you only have one app displaying there.

[piotr.dobrogost]

I'd love to see a simple hybrid shell/window manager that could do tiling and floating.

For KDE there's really nice https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling

(...) I always install Rectangle (pretty much successor of Spectacle) on macOS to achieve.

I've heard Magnet is good - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766