Window Managers there are many, and taking one's side or saying that this one is better than others is swampy ground. Less problematic would be to talk about what one has tried, what one has heard or what one knows best, and from that position I can say that the window manager protagonist of this article is among the top three. A few hours ago, on Sunday afternoon in Spain, sway 1.10.
Sway is based on i3. It is basically the popular window manager for X11 but ported to Wayland. Sway 1.10 is built on wlroots 0.18, the library that in turn provides many Wayland features for compositors. wlroots 0.18 introduces new support for protocols such as linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit synchronization, alpha-modifier-v1 for alpha channel support on surfaces, ext-foreign-toplevel-v1 as a protocol for taskbars and application switchers, and ext-transient-seat-v1 for improved VNC or remote handling.
wlroots 0.18 also Improves support for Vulkan rendering, introduces new rendering API for reading GPU pixel buffers and several other changes.
Other new features in Sway 1.10
- GPU reboot recovery has been introduced.
- New command to use an ICC profile for output.
- Its renderer has been rewritten to use the wlroots graphics scene API to improve performance.
- Support for protocols such as those mentioned above, tearing-control-v1 or xdg-shell v5.
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Support for IME popups used for CJK along with several other changes.
sway 1.10 It is now available on GitHub. Right now, it must be installed manually. In the future, Linux distributions that offer the window manager, such as those used by the Arch Linux or Fedora bases, will add it to the official repositories. Another option is to use distros that include Sway by default, such as Manjaro — community edition –, Fedora — spin — o Ubuntu Sway — remix –.