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Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.

Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?

I've played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sway and foot work pretty decently. Might want to check them out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • imv as an image viewer
  • emacs has wayland support
  • zathura for pdf viewing

Check Awesome Wayland for more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In case you're already using emacs I wouldn't bother with a separate pdf viewer - pdf-tools for emacs is imo the best PDF viewer nowadays available on linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I gotta leave something for those who choose to reside with the beast: Neovim

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

imv looks good, thanks for the link

I'm a bit confused, I left Reddit to escape emacs users....should I be on kbin instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

imv is the absolute best

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is no saving your soul; Emacs is life, Emacs is death. /j

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In case you want eye candy (or how I call it: the Wayland compositor doing compositing) you can also check out swayfx. Personally, I use it with kitty and waybar.