Sway April 2021

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Enabling libseat session backend in rawhide
by Aleksei Bavshin 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

In accordance with upstream's development direction[1][2][3], I'm planning to enable libseat[4] session backend for rawhide build of wlroots in the next few weeks. The change should not affect any users of wlroots-0.13.0 and will not change API or ABI. *However*, if your workflow involves using custom pam stack without pam_systemd and granting suid to the `/usr/bin/sway` or any other compositor binary, please contact me so I could adjust libseat build-time options accordingly. Currently it's built with systemd-logind backend only. [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2755 [2]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2786 [3]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2839 [4]: https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/ -- Best regards, Aleksei Bavshin

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f34 release notes for sway
by Aleksei Bavshin 11 May '21

11 May '21

Greetings, Let's start this message from the good news: Fedora 34 was released with Sway 1.6 available as a day 0 update. We're getting a lot of bugfixes, shiny new wlroots DRM renderer backend, and of course new bugs :) ## Upstream release notes: - https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.6 - https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/releases/tag/0.13.0 ## Default configuration changes for Fedora package: A couple of configuration snippets are now provided by the optional dependency sway-systemd: - `/etc/sway/config.d/10-systemd-session.conf` - configures systemd user session environment - `/etc/sway/config.d/10-systemd-cgroups.conf` - configures automatic management of cgroups for GUI applications in sway session (#1935923) Detailed documentation: https://github.com/alebastr/sway-systemd/blob/main/README.md ### Opt-in for users with custom config file: `include /etc/sway/config.d/*` directive in the default configuration already includes these snippets. If you removed the line from your custom config file, you can restore it or just include the parts you want. (the configuration files may change in the future, so it is better to include them instead of copying the contents). ### Opt-out options: - Remove `sway-systemd` package and add it to `excludepkgs` in the `fedora`, `updates` and `updates-testing` repository configuration - Remove `include` directives that match the files listed above from your sway config file. - Edit `/etc/sway/config.d/*.conf` files and comment all uncommented lines. Be aware that the future updates of sway-systemd package may create `/etc/sway/config.d/*.conf.rpmnew` files which are also sourced by sway ## grimshot `grimshot` screenshot helper script from the sway/contrib source directory is now offered as a `grimshot` package. It provides several convenient wrappers around grim, slurp and wl-copy. ## xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.3.0 Just a heads up that the updated xdpw package now asks you to select the output you'd like to share. It does that using `slurp` though, so it's completely understandable if you get confused first time that happens :) See OUTPUT CHOOSER section of `man 5 xdg-desktop-portal-wlr` to configure alternative chooser command (dmenu, rofi, wofi, etc...). Deprecation warning: if you have xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service override with `-o` option for xdpw, you may want to remove it and use chooser or specify desired output as an option in the configuration file. *** ## Known issues: - Sway may fail to start with *any* GPU (including integrated Intel) if the libs from the proprietary NVIDIA driver are installed. Even if the kernel module for NVIDIA driver is not loaded. Upstream link: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2480 Solution: ensure that libglvnd >= 1.3.2-4.fc34 is installed - Artifacts and glitches with Nouveau open-source driver for NVIDIA cards. Upstream link: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#sway-16-shows-garbage-on-nouveau Solution: start sway with WLR_DRM_NO_MODIFIERS=1 environment variable, i.e. `env WLR_DRM_NO_MODIFIERS=1 /usr/bin/sway` Will be fixed with mesa 21.1.x update somewhere in May. - Sway or any other wlroots-based compositor refuses to start on Allwinner SOC devices with `lima` open-source driver (PinePhone et al.). Upstream link: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2795 Solution: wait for mesa 21.1.x update somewhere in May. Meanwhile, sway-1.5.1 is still available in f34 repositories and should work on this hardware. - Mouse cursor is not visible in some apps on a scaled output Upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/194, https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6166 Solution: a comment in the sway issue mentions that certain cursor themes are not affected. I cannot provide further guidance due to the lack of HiDPI display, so suggestions with the working cursor theme available from Fedora repositories are welcome. - Applications started as a systemd user service are failing to connect to a wayland socket. Solution: see default configuration changes section above - Sway with all applications is terminated on low memory condition. Solutions: a) remove systemd-oomd-defaults package to disable systemd OOM killer b) see default configuration changes section above *** I'm certain that I forgot to mention a lot of things, so feel free to reply with the changes you consider important :) -- Best regards, Aleksei Bavshin

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sway main maintainer
by Till Hofmann 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi all, I have just orphaned sway, as in practice, I no longer do the main maintenance tasks. Aleksei has done awesome work and I think this should be reflected in the main contact. Feel free to take over the package! :) Thanks, Till

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wlroots 0.13.0 update for rawhide and f34
by Aleksei Bavshin 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

Greetings, wlroots 0.13.0 and sway 1.6 have been released today. As usual, the update is API and ABI breaking and all dependent packages must be rebuilt. For all the dependents I identified either upstream patches or ETA for the new release and have successful copr builds. I'm planning to create rawhide side-tag later today, rebuild all @sway-sig packages and send PRs with instructions to the packages I don't have access to. The side-tag will be merged in a week or when all the rebuilds are done. I also plan to prepare a day 0 update for f34 once rawhide rebuilds are completed. Let me know if you have any concerns about that. BCC: maintainer aliases for cage, labwc, phoc and wayfire -- With best regards, Aleksei Bavshin

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