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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honest question: what does i3wm that swaywm doesn't?

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I never heard of it before, so I checked to see what it is. I wrote a pretty neat config for my i3wm and to this day am so comfortable with it that I would never change it.

From my understanding after a look, it is pretty much i3wm for Wayland. If my config works well with it, I might give it a shot.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Supposedly it works with unmodified i3wm config files, though I haven't tested that myself.