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o5gmmob8
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 Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 2:17 am Post subject: sway / wayland stability |
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I have been running sway / wayland for a few weeks and while I don't notice any visual difference compared to i3, I've experienced what appears to be hanging.
When I am closing my kitty terminal, it will hang for no apparent reason and will stay there until I properly kill it (kill -9 <PID>).
Additionally, I've experienced some odd behavior in micro when first opening files to edit. It is like the keyboard is stuck and so if I hit CTRL+K to cut a line, it will repeat that until I hit escape or quit.
I'm not sure if these are related or issues with sway or wayland, but originally, I was experiencing issues with notification-daemon segfaulting and so I uninstalled that altogether and instead use mako. I also saw a bunch of ACPI errors and upgraded my BIOS in the process.
Has anyone else experienced some odd behavior on wayland like this? |
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The Main Man
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a reason to use Kitty, I mean I don't know if that is the reason for your problem but AFAIK Kitty isn't Wayland supported.
I use Sway and Alacritty for a very long time and there are no issues, it has wayland USE flag. |
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o5gmmob8
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, good call, the issue is only when I'm in kitty, perhaps that is the problem.
I haven't gone through my other apps, but suspect that other apps may also be in a similar boat. |
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spica
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: sway / wayland stability |
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| o5gmmob8 wrote: | | When I am closing my kitty terminal, it will hang for no apparent reason and will stay there until I properly kill it (kill -9 <PID>). |
How do you close Kitty? Do you keep pressing Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D until all tabs are closed, or do you use a Sway keybinding to close the window? If something is still running in the terminal, Kitty will prompt you for confirmation before closing. The first approach ensures that nothing is running in the terminal when you close it (and no kitty hanging with prompt). How to disable confirmation https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/797#issuecomment-1128445800 |
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o5gmmob8
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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I use kitty instead of alacritty because it supports tabs, otherwise, I think for me, they're identical.
Also, I believe kitty does support wayland and automatically detects the underlying implementation.
I exit kitty by exiting each tab via CTRL+D. When it hung, I was unable to use that keybinding (CTRL+Q) to close the window. I had to kill it. |
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CooSee
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I use kitty instead of alacritty because it supports tabs |
i use x11-terms/sakura - because i love and use app-misc/mc as the only file manager !
all other terminals break mc, because of their annoying color themes or they use to much RAM etc.
sakura never fails - mc never fails and it's the same on tty !
if you like sway then you should try Hyprland - who can say no to this https://github.com/HyDE-Project/HyDE
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ChrisJumper
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Hi o5gmmob8,
i think you should measure it. Wayland is the future cause of less lines of code and more up to date coding. And because you will report bugs and help to fix it.
Sure you can stay on X11 with a huge amount of known unfixed bucks and spaghetti code.
Just use and bugfix wayland.
Regards old chris |
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