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!

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      LXQt is already on Qt 6.6 (?) which means native wayland-first support.

      They are not fully done but that will only be a month or so.

      Until then, I dont know really? Will be great!

      Meanwhile MATE and XFCE are on GTK3? Which is not perfectly wayland ready afaik.

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    5 months ago

    P.S—

    My main problem is screen tearing (my display refresh seems to be 59.999, and I notice this when moving windows around or watching 60 FPS video or even just scrolling PDFs)—is that something Wayland would even help at all? Am I just wasting my time here?

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      5 months ago

      yes waylabd could help in that, but i’m not sure how good xfce and mate behave in wayland, btw you are using nixOS, rollback is easy no?, try and tell us :v