Greetings
Is there any plans for a Fedora Spin that defaults to Sway Windows Manager (only)? Need testers? Any kick-starter primers?
Regards Onyeibo
Hi,
A spin is a lot of work! It is easier to start from a Fedora minimal installation and pick the groups and packages you want (that's what I did). We might want to document such a setup in the quick docs first :-)
What would be your use case?
Regards,
Hi Timothée
I just want something less resource-hungry than the default. I love Gnome when its about getting new users into Fedora (Ambassador program). I run rawhide version to catch bugs. Gnome misbehaves once in a while. Someone at #fedora-qa (freenode) suggested "Sway" as a fallback. I liked it on first trial! I may not say the same for Sway- lock though -- that one is quite unstable.
After some weeks, Sway is growing on me. Making it the major DE is preferable (others like "awesome" or "i3" can be the fallback instead).
SUMMARY: -------- 1. I just need a simple DE that allows me to focus on work (then I can report any bug that shows up in the process). I use a wide range of tools (for Music, design, development, office, .... etc.) 2. It would be nice to access other partitions without running "gnome- disks" with elevated privileges. Policy-kit (authentications) don't seem to work in Sway DE. 3. I look forward to a packaged version of slurp and grim (running a compiled version for now) 4. Perhaps there is another screen locking utility that works well with sway. Sway-lock snaps when I use multiple shells
Hope that describes my use-case well enough
Regards Onyeibo
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 10:41 +0200, Timothée Floure wrote:
Hi,
A spin is a lot of work! It is easier to start from a Fedora minimal installation and pick the groups and packages you want (that's what I did). We might want to document such a setup in the quick docs first :-)
What would be your use case?
Regards,
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Hi,
How do I start? Are the setup steps documented yet?
yours anxiously, Onyeibo
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 10:41 +0200, Timothée Floure wrote:
Hi,
A spin is a lot of work! It is easier to start from a Fedora minimal installation and pick the groups and packages you want (that's what I did). We might want to document such a setup in the quick docs first :-)
What would be your use case?
Regards,
Hello,
Sorry for the late reply, I do not have much time these days. As mentionned before, you can select the "Minimal Installation" group in Anaconda. You will end up with: a bootloader, a kernel, a package manager, wired networking support, a shell and some basic tools CLI tools.
It's up to you to configure your system afterwards. Feel free to ask me - or ask.fp.o - if you're stuck on something but note that I might take some time to answer.
``` ~ » dnf group info "Minimal Install" Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:19 ago on Thu 12 Sep 2019 13:40:05 CEST. Environment Group: Minimal Install Description: Basic functionality. Mandatory Groups: Core Optional Groups: Guest Agents Standard ~ » dnf group info Core Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:46 ago on Thu 12 Sep 2019 13:40:05 CEST.
Group: Core Description: Smallest possible installation Mandatory Packages: audit basesystem bash coreutils curl dhcp-client dnf dnf-yum e2fsprogs filesystem glibc hostname iproute iputils kbd less man-db ncurses openssh-clients openssh-server parted passwd plymouth policycoreutils procps-ng rootfiles rpm rpmfusion-free-release selinux-policy-targeted setup shadow-utils sssd-common sssd-kcm sudo systemd util-linux vim-minimal Default Packages: NetworkManager dnf-plugins-core dracut-config-rescue firewalld lsvpd powerpc-utils Optional Packages: dracut-config-generic initial-setup initscripts uboot-images-armv7 uboot-images-armv8 uboot-tools Conditional Packages: rpmfusion-free-appstream-data ```