6d ago

System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta

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https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta

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I wonder if I will stay on sway after cosmic releases
- I desperately want a smithay based hyprland clone... hyprland is just so unbelievably good, shame about the dev.
  
  What makes hyprland so good? It just seems like another WM to me, but maybe I don't get the interesting parts of it.
  
  The developer is just kind of insane. They reimplemented wlroots from scratch all on their own, a feat that cannot be understated, and the reason they did that is because of how massively they were outpacing wlroots development in terms of features.
  just some things:
  a full proper animation stack for eyecandy
  single window capture (sway still doesn't have this)
  keypress forwarding to specific windows (like xdotool)
  global hotkey support
  insanely good documentation: https://wiki.hyprland.org/
  color management and HDR (sway is just now getting this)
  proper permission management for screencopy (coming in the newest version, first compositor to implement)
  a full plugin system for extra things you want to do
  a proper app not responding dialog
  If the feature exists, hyprland has it, almost guaranteed, they are not minimalists, which I appreciate right now while wayland is still getting everything sorted out. It's also the only compositor i've used that mostly works with a certain dumb app i uses clipboard.
  And just check out the rate of changes:
  https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pulse/monthly
  vaxry is crazy.
  
  I'm using Hyprland for a long time now and somehow I completely missed the global hotkey support. Thanks!
  
  Interesting. May need to check it out, but I pmuch only use Gnome or KDE. I hate having to configure the extra parts in a WM (widgets for bluetooth, wifi, etc...).
- Not sure I could stop using a tiling window manager now
  
  Cosmic supposedly does tiling pretty well. Haven't tried it yet, but it might be the one new thing I'll try since going all in on i3 / sway a long time ago...

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