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Im a long time i3 user too. I like my setup, and have probably dozens of custom
i3-xxxxxprograms that I've made over time, my custom config compositor, custom rofi menues that show different options hepending on the hostname, a well-tuned i3-status-rs, and of course: the muscle memory of all the shortcuts...I gotta say, jumping to Wayland and using cute bars and themes looks tempting, but it's probably gonna be a pain in the ass.
What's a config compositor? Compositor makes me think of display/server compositor, like KWin, picom, etc.
Anyway, share everything you got if you can, that sounds cool!
i3wm-ist here. Niri also didn't provide anything to me i3 didn't. It was actually more dificcult and less productive for my professional work with two monitors. But for laptop only usage it's amazing.
i3 to sway is pretty smooth. You don't have to change much and after a while you forget if youre using i3 or sway.
Multi-monitor i3 really ruins virtually any non-i3 multi-monitor, with a few exception of other tiling window managers, I think.
I heard KDE introducing something similar, but I can't imagine it being as convenient.
I'm thinking of migrating to sway on a full-AMD machine I have, but I think it had shown me some attitude a couple of times and I didn't bother further.
Aside from the best practices and safety, what can Wayland provide to me on a mostly-work machine? I know I'll miss
.Xresourcesfor the colors across multiple applications, though.I'm taking the same approach for my main work laptop. As long as X11 is working, I probably won't bother moving to wayland/sway.