Not sure if I'll remove these again. All I know is that I'll no longer
have to worry about not having certain dotfiles if I want to try a
particular setup again, which is nice.
Although using a Wayland window manager was cute, Sway always felt like
a gimped version of bspwm to me. This is likely due to many of the bspwm
features I use, as well as certain X applications not working well under
Wayland (such as feh).
I am also not interested in maintaining the config for Sway, and prefer
bspwm's approach where it's configured through bspc and shell scripting.
In summary, "after all these years", Sway is still more trouble than
it's worth for me personally, and I'd rather invest that time focusing
on my existing bspwm setup, which has always been pleasant to use.
Similar to bspwm, all keybinds are now handled with super to avoid
conflicts with other applications. In the future it may be useful to
replicate the rest of the bspwm environment under sway.
Now sway behaves similarly to unclutter on bspwm/xorg, and we don't have
to worry about moving the cursor out of the way since it automatically
disappears.
This is similar to bspwm, except new workspaces aren't automatically
created and empty workspaces are skipped.
Although creating a script to handle this should be possible, sway
doesn't offer any real benefits to me since bspwm does everything that
sway can do with the addition of input method, image preview, and other
features being better supported on xorg.
To reiterate, I like the idea behind sway, however I am more fluent with
bspwm and xorg and prefer how windows are managed in bspwm. For software
that only works on wayland, sway is a lightweight alternative to
committing to a full-featured desktop environment like GNOME.
Although alacritty is cool, kitty is also cool and has image support,
ideal for rice screenshots.
This commit also adds $alt for the rofi command in the previous commit.
After the contest for archlinux-wallpaper, there are a lot of high
quality backgrounds that one can choose from. Instead of worrying
about choosing an appropriate background for a desktop environment,
one can simply use archlinux-wallpaper instead.
