Bug 2361697

Summary:	Lightweight Windows Manager needed for EPEL 10 (Sway WM Request)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mat H <bashi>
Component:	sway	Assignee:	Aleksei Bavshin <alebastr89>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	alciregi, alebastr89, carl, dpgraham4401, grumpey0, me, plautrba, suraj.ghimire7, sway-sig, zsvetlik
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Branch, Extras, FutureFeature, Improvement
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Mat H 2025-04-22 17:04:59 UTC

Please branch and build Sway Windows Manager for EPEL 9 and 10.

A lightweight WM is needed for CentOS Stream 9 and 10.

Reproducible: Always




Additional Information:
I would be glad to help in any way, currently I work in the DEI, Join, Ask Fedora and community aspects of the Fedora ecosystem, username @theprogram

I am currently using Weston in CentOS Stream 9 and it does not work very well.  Sway is far superior.

Comment 1 Mat H 2025-04-24 11:24:05 UTC

If Sway is not able to be packaged for EPEL 9 I would be okay with any stable Tiling Window Manager if one could be recommended.

Comment 2 Mat H 2025-07-27 20:55:12 UTC

I have built and installed Sway for CentOS Stream 10 using wlroots 0.18 and sway 1.10.1
but I get some wlroots errors.  If someone more knoweldgeable than me could add it to EPEL 10 it should not be too difficult :)

Comment 3 Mat H 2025-07-28 08:42:50 UTC

Will you be able to branch and build sway in epel10 ?

(Thank you, following advice in CentOS Matrix room)