Bug 1830595 - The default terminal for sway should be alacritty
Summary: The default terminal for sway should be alacritty
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sway
Version: 33
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Till Hofmann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-02 21:52 UTC by David Pedersen
Modified: 2020-11-11 01:18 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: sway-1.5-3.fc33
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Last Closed: 2020-11-11 01:18:06 UTC
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Description David Pedersen 2020-05-02 21:52:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
In the official default sway config the terminal emulator is set to alacritty. Fedora decides to do a sed in the sway.spec to replace it with urxvt256c-ml instead of packaging the recommended terminal emulator.

Packaging alacritty in Fedora and not a setting a custom terminal would give users trying out sway a better and more official experience.
Comment 1 Zuzana Svetlikova 2020-05-07 09:24:59 UTC 
You can try asking in devel.org if someone would be interested in doing the work.
Since alacritty seems to be written in Rust, I think it might be good idea to CC Rust SIG (more info: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Rust).
Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2020-08-11 13:22:03 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 33 development cycle.
Changing version to 33.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-10-25 11:03:51 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-0eeae4aa08 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-0eeae4aa08
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-11-11 01:18:06 UTC 
FEDORA-2020-0eeae4aa08 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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