Fellas, I'm at my wit's end with this one. I'm trying to set a general rule for window opacity in sway, and then have a few programs excepted from it.

Back on i3 with picom, I could do this pretty easily by setting activeOpacity to 0.9, for example, and then specifying additional opacityRules like this:

"100:class_g = 'mpv'"
"100:class_g = 'Brave-browser'"

Likewise, hyprland's window rules made it pretty easy to override the general opacity rules as well.

I can't seem to get this on sway, though; if I set it up like this:

[app_id=".*"] opacity 0.85

[app_id="brave_browser"] opacity set 1
[app_id="librewolf"] opacity 1

it simply sets everything to 0.85.

Currently, I have this:

[app_id="^(?!mpv$|brave_browser$).*$"] opacity 0.85

[app_id="brave_browser"] opacity set 1
[app_id="mpv"] opacity 1

but it is still exhibiting the same behavior (except mpv also seems to totally disregard any opacity rules whatsoever).

Any help is greatly appreciated---I haven't been able to find anyone else asking or talking about what seems to me like pretty basic functionality.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15059157

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15059150

Hey friends,

I tried Kakoune for the first time recently—I definitely feel like it gets keybindings right. So I just wrapped up configuring Helix to (as far as I can tell) use those bindings (basically, it totally cuts out select mode and makes things much faster). Thought I'd share for anyone else interested.

[keys.normal]
H = "extend_char_left"
J = "extend_line_down"
K = "extend_line_up"
L = "extend_char_right"

W = "extend_next_word_start"
E = "extend_next_word_end"
B = "extend_prev_word_start"

A-j = "join_selections"

A-n = "search_prev"
N = "extend_search_next"
A-N = "extend_search_prev"

[keys.normal.g]
e = ["goto_last_line", "goto_line_end"]
G = ["select_mode", "goto_file_start", "normal_mode"]
[keys.normal.G]
H = "extend_to_line_start"
L = "extend_to_line_end"
E = ["select_mode", "goto_last_line", "goto_line_end", "normal_mode"]
[keys.normal.v]
t = "align_view_top"
b = "align_view_bottom"
v = "align_view_center"

Happy editing!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15059150

Hey friends,

I tried Kakoune for the first time recently—I definitely feel like it gets keybindings right. So I just wrapped up configuring Helix to (as far as I can tell) use those bindings (basically, it totally cuts out select mode and makes things much faster). Thought I'd share for anyone else interested.

[keys.normal]
H = "extend_char_left"
J = "extend_line_down"
K = "extend_line_up"
L = "extend_char_right"

W = "extend_next_word_start"
E = "extend_next_word_end"
B = "extend_prev_word_start"

A-j = "join_selections"

A-n = "search_prev"
N = "extend_search_next"
A-N = "extend_search_prev"

[keys.normal.g]
e = ["goto_last_line", "goto_line_end"]
[keys.normal.G]
H = "extend_to_line_start"
L = "extend_to_line_end"
E = ["select_mode", "goto_last_line", "goto_line_end", "normal_mode"]
[keys.normal.v]
t = "align_view_top"
b = "align_view_bottom"
v = "align_view_center"

Happy editing!

Fellas,

I've been using my current setup on NixOS (Xfce + i3) for about a month now---it's totally great, but I've got some minor things that bother me just a little bit, and I want to see if Wayland does anything for me. I like my combination of a lightweight desktop and tiling windows, so I thought maybe I could do something like MATE + Sway?

Does anyone run anything like this? MATE seems pretty close to Xfce, right?

Happy to hear any thoughts.

Cheers!