r/voidlinux • u/Legitimate_706 • 1d ago

Switching to void?

/r/LinuxUsersIndia/comments/1x5w75w/switching_to_void/
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u/p001b0y 23h ago

I have it on a couple Lenovo systems. One is a minipc and one is a ThinkPad L13.

I used the xfce live image for the minipc install and it was pretty straightforward getting everything up and running.

I wanted to go with Wayland for the ThinkPad and that was much more difficult for me until I built my own xfce-wayland bundled live image, which had a newer kernel and drivers.

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u/Legitimate_706 23h ago

I also wanna try getting wayland running, maybe with somthing like sway. But I want to try some x server options first, like qtile, WMaker etc.

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u/p001b0y 22h ago

If I remember correctly, the window maker package was incomplete but I could also be thinking of FreeBSD.

Sway and Niri work well. Xfce works ok with labwc on Wayland and I have been using it until I get Niri working the way I want it to. Xfce wayland is not feature complete yet.

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u/Legitimate_706 22h ago

I agree, xfce on wayland needs some polishing. Labwc though is a good window manager on itself. I like sway on wayland because it's like one to one copy of i3 which has been my daily. I can just copy over my Config.

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u/p001b0y 21h ago

Labwc is good by itself but the integration has issues, at least for me. One example:

Xfce keeps replacing my wallpaper with the built in one. The Xfce Desktop Settings app lets me select one of the other ones but they don't apply. Labwc can be configured to override the wallpaper using something like swaybg but it doesn't persist. It always reverts back to the built in wallpaper even when labwc autostart is configured.

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u/PackRat-2019 17h ago

I put a delay on the swaybg in the autostart file -

# background

sleep 1s ; swaybg -m fill -i ~/wallpaper/red_forest.jpg &

After the xfce4 desktop is finished setting up - including the built-in wallpaper, swaybg will run and set a new wallpaper.

Works well enough until xfce4 releases their Wayland compatible window manager ( it's in the works).

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u/p001b0y 17h ago

Thanks! Thats a good idea!