Hello all, I love finding applications that feel minimal and do their job well, i.e. zathura, qview, etc.

Do any of you have applications you feel fit with your swaywm experience well?

  • TrinitronX
    2•1 year ago

    I’m sure most folks are aware of the list on Are we Wayland yet?, which has a lot of great apps. Most of the standard desktop ones are already included with Manjaro Sway edition. However, one glaring omission was a calculator app (bc is of course included and usable on the terminal, but can be rather cumbersome for complex calculations).

    Today, I stumbled across a very nice alternative: speedcrunch. So far it’s been working great natively on Sway thanks to being based on the latest qt5-tools. Nice fast keyboard-based interface with the option to use a GUI keypad, binary (“Bitfield”) input, support for expressions, functions, mathematical constants, smart completion, complex numbers, and more!

    Really much happier with this app when compared to the more basic gnome-calculator, and even GNU bc (“basic calculator” or “bash calc” as I like to call it).

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      What do you mean? I’m using at least wofi and firefox on Sway. I’d prefer Qutebrowser, but it prints zillions of errors.

  • @mceplEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    There is a lot you can do just with rofi … yes, this fork works with Wayland, and with a just a bit of gluing together, you can get completely functional applications … e.g., https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc, I am in the process (patches welcome!) with writing a pinentry program just with bash at https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/pinentry-rofi (for some reasons all pinentry programs are written in something weird, so it pulls unwanted dependencies to the host system on MicroOS).

  • @ZenzioEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Hey there, I’m going to throw Variety in there as my favourite wallpaper management tool. After setting it up with a URL from wallhaven.cc pointing to your preferred tag or type of wallpaper you won’t even have to go look for nice wallpapers yourself (e.g. the URL in my variety settings points to the digital art category). Afterwards you can bindsym commands similiar to these in your SwayWM config file and everything will be nicely integrated:

    bindsym Shift+Alt+t exec variety -t trash current wallpaper

    bindsym Shift+Alt+f exec variety -f favourite current wallpaper

    bindsym Shift+Alt+n exec variety -n switch to next wallpaper

    bindsym Shift+Alt+p exec variety -p switch to previous wallpaper

    Trash, favourite, switch to next or previous wallpaper. Simply a great way to enjoy nice wallpapers without any effort. And if you then sync your fav-wallpaper folder with the cloud provider of your choice you won’t ever lose it.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      That is an amazing way to discover new wallpapers, thank you! You’ll never get bored of your wallpaper anymore.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Those are probably my most used programs! Even a huge emacs config is minimal is you run emacs in daemon mode ;)

  • @gitEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Helix because it is a nice code editor and has a catpuccin theme by default

    • @MigratingtoLemmy
      1•1 year ago

      How do you get used to the keybindings though? The devs refuse to add vim keybindings compatibility