State-of-Sway-August-2017.md (3014B)
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- date: 2017-08-09
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- title: State of Sway August 2017
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- tags: [sway]
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- Is it already time to write another one of these? Phew, time flies. Sway marches
- ever forward. Sway 0.14.0 was recently released, adding much asked-after support
- for tray icons and fixing some long-standing bugs. As usual, we already have
- some exciting features slated for 0.15.0 as well, notably some cool improvements
- to clipboard support. Look forward to it!
- Today Sway has 24,123 lines of C (and 4,489 lines of header files) written by 94
- authors across 2,345 commits. These were written through 689 pull requests and
- 624 issues. Sway packages are available today in the repos of almost every Linux
- distribution.
- [](https://sr.ht/ICd5.png)
- For those who are new to the project, [Sway](http://swaywm.org) is an
- i3-compatible Wayland compositor. That is, your existing [i3](http://i3wm.org/)
- configuration file will work as-is on Sway, and your keybindings and colors and
- fonts and for_window rules and so on will all be the same. It's i3, but for
- Wayland, plus it's got some bonus features. Here's a quick rundown of what's
- new since the [previous state of Sway](/2017/04/29/State-of-sway-April-2017.html):
- * Initial support for tray icons
- * X11/Wayland clipboard synchronization
- * nvidia proprietary driver support*
- * i3's marks
- * i3's mouse button bindings
- * Lots of i3 compatibility improvements
- * Lots of documentation improvements
- * Lots of bugfixes
- If this seems like a shorter list than usual, it's because we've also been
- making great progress on wlroots too - no doubt thanks to the help of the many
- contributors doing amazing work in there. For those unaware, wlroots is our
- project to replace wlc with a new set of libraries for Wayland compositor
- underpinnings (it fills a similar niche as libweston). We now have a working DRM
- backend (including output rotation and hardware cursors) and libinput backend
- (including touchscreen and drawing tablet support), and we're making headway now
- on drawing Wayland clients on screen. I'm very excited about our pace and
- direction - keep an eye on it
- [here](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/wlroots/issues/9). I have also taken over for
- Cloudef as the maintainer of [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc) during the
- transition.
- In other news, our bounty program continues to go strong. Our [current
- pot](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/986) is $1200 and we've paid out
- $80 so far (and a $280 payout is on the horizon for tray icons). I've also
- started a [Patreon page](https://www.patreon.com/sircmpwn), where 26 patrons are
- generously supporting my work as maintainer of Sway and other projects. Many
- thanks to everyone who has contributed financially to Sway's success!
- That wraps up today's post. Thanks for using Sway!
- <small class="text-muted">* I hate this crappy driver. It works, but don't
- expect to receive much support for it. <a
- href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ">Linus said it
- best</a>.</small>