Arch Linux Monthly Install - 06.2021 - Sway

[@morenteria2988]

Thank you Ermanno! You’re the best my friend!!!

[@jonbikaku6133]

Loool wow

[@amietinen]

en* is ethernet wl* is wifi and ww* is wwan (LTE). Great video as always, good idea to include both UEFI and legacy :)

[@Klatsch_Batsch]

Great Video... but why don't run pamac-aur ? Is it crashed? I read that's an Bug in Pacman 6.

[@nejathakan5521]

Hallo Ermanno, habe eben in deinem ersten Satz gehört dass es dir gesundheitlich nicht so gut ging. Hoffentlich ist nun alles vorbei. Ich wünsche dir GOTTES Segen und Barmherzigkeit. Mögest Du uns noch eine SEHR SEHR lange Zeit erhalten bleiben. Friede mit dir Selamu aleykum

[@taidee]

At it again, sir, thank you. I wish you a full recovery soon.

[@user-gp8ub8vh7i]

I 'm not planning to install Sway and don´t like Wayland but I still watched to the end. Thanks Ermanno, hope you will get fully recovered. Please, stay safe, we need you!!!

[@kinhikar]

Hello Ermanno! I highly appreciate your content. Please keep a timeline and it's visual representation as you did in an earlier video. It's really helpful for revisiting purpose. Thanks and lots of love from 🇮🇳

[@karthickram3804]

last month also you had some health issues .... so make sure you are feeling good.... and we prey for you.... i love all your videos and everyone who love arch linux love to watch your videos and loves your technical explanations. And in personal i like all your videos because it tell us what is there and what we need to do with that...we are there to support you .... so please take care of your health Ermanno .....

[@axelfricke-delia924]

Hi Ermanno. Thanks also from me for your phantastic content and work. Even though I had done quite a few Arch installations myself I somehow always look forward to your monthly installations as you manage to bring up something new for me every time! And from my side I wish you a further speedy recovery!

[@eflinux]

Thanks Axel!

[@marcoandreoni2112]

Are you doing some low latency audio work using pipewire? I want to know how it performs with Jack

[@kirito4297]

Thanks a lot Ermanno ! Great video 💪

[@gloomwitcher3500]

Thank you, Ermanno! You’re the best!))

[@FrankTheile]

Small hint: `bs` in the `dd` command means "block size", not "base" AFAIK

[@eflinux]

You’re right, that’s what I mean by base, but I’ll specify it more clearly next time.

[@__gadonk__]

hope you get well soon :)

[@arijitkumarhaldar3197]

My TP-Link TL-WR725N USB wifi adapter does not show up in iwd prompt. From some forums..I found that older wext drivers aren't supported in iwd...and has to be connected with wpa supplicant..but I couldn't get my internet working even with that. Any tips?

[@sc0or]

That blinking input cursor summons many memories ) It blinks in so old fashion way.. PS Thank you very much for swaymsg. I looked for something to rotate my screen under wayland as xrandr does. Now I think I can use wayland with my Raspberry Pi -) PSS I would be nice to see something about using sway with high DPI settings. For me personally this is a show stopper. Now I do not use any WM/DE and run Plex Player with xserver directly. But to have a full power of WM/DE in some case isn't a bad idea I think.

[@Zodiac-pz9bn]

Your videos are just amazing☺️☺️

[@AbarSimorgh]

Great content. Thank you for sharing. In the 05.2021 you mentioned that you are doing the KDE version for 05.2021 video. Just wondering if you have plan to do that. Greatly appreciated.

[@karthickram3804]

good day Mr. Ermanno please take of your health first.. because we need you and this arch linux community need a person like you... so please take care of your health first and if everything is ok... please post the videos ... you dont want to strain your self too much.. health is wealth... we all care for your health....

[@juxuanu]

You could create different parts of the video, so we could see which section is for installing system, sway, config, etc

[@TheBlackSkimmer]

Damn, you posted this right when I wanted to install arch with sway. Perfect timing. :D

[@marcooliveira1421]

Hey. Are you still using Sway? It’s doing great? I’ve used i3wm two years ago and started to use Windows for my work and I’m planning to back to Linux . Sway seems very good. What is your experiences? Thanks!

[@needlessoptions]

This channel is a hidden gem 💎💎💎

[@randallpaulallen5538]

I recently did the installation in this video, except I did NOT install a display manager (ly). After logging in, I just run sway and it "starts" Wayland. My question is, can I also install X (xorg) with BPSWM and then after logging in I can either run "startx" to use X and BPSWM, or run "sway" to run Wayland with sway? Will this work? Or will there be some kind of conflict preventing it from working? I ask because I occasionally use skype and it doesn't seem to work on Wayland.

[@eflinux]

I don't see why it shouldn't work , although I've never tried this setup.

[@randallpaulallen5538]

@@eflinux Thanks. If I give it a try I'll let you know the results.

[@randallpaulallen5538]

In a previous video you showed how to install bspwm on arch without a display manager. As I recall, this was done by installing xorg-init, adding “exec bspwm” to the .xinitrc file and then running startx to start x, which also starts bspwm. That is how I have it set up on one of my laptops. I’m going to put Wayland/Sway on my other laptop. Is there a way to do something similar with Wayland/Sway that doesn’t use the console display manager Ly?

[@eflinux]

Not that I’m aware of, but maybe someone in the community has another idea.

[@randallpaulallen5538]

@@eflinux I can't believe how simple this was. I simply disabled ly and restarted. After logging in, I just ran sway (like I run startx on my laptop with BSPWM) and sway starts up. It's as simple as that. On another note: input type:keyboard{ xkb_layout br } didn't work for me. I got an error message that it was expecting two parameters and got only on. What worked for me was replacing "type:keyboard "with "*" as in: input * { xkb_layout "br" } which I found on the Sway page of the Arch wiki.

[@Swanicorn]

If I have multiple distros installed, do I need separate swap partitions for each of them? I know we can skip swap altogether but does each distro need its own swap partition or can they share one? I am thinking so cuz for my noob-logic swap is like RAM on HDD.

[@randallpaulallen5538]

I have had triple-boot systems (Windows and 2 Linux distros). The 2 Linux distros used the same swap partition. The only warning I'd give, is that after you make the swap partition for the first installation, do not alter it (for example, change its size) in any way when installing the second distro.

[@santiblocks]

Makes sense to do only one swap, as only one system is running-suspended at a time.

[@bayronq]

The best in archlinux ✋🏽🙏🏽👏🏽

[@LEJENFOLIE]

Hey dude, thank you very much, you helped me a lot. Take care of yourself :)

[@vermifugo]

Hi. I am so glad i found your channel. I tried to follow this example install but i couldnt clone the git you linked, it asks me for authentication, do i have to sign in to something?

[@eflinux]

If you take the link in the video description, it should work without.

[@plazmax]

Awesome as always, thank you show both in same video :)

[@technomatic6285]

Hello sir, I wanted to address something regarding the Windows 10 + Arch Linux dual boot video from a while ago. The thing is, Windows creates a 100 MB EFI Partition by default which is definitely insufficient for using additional kernels, some GRUB themes and Plymouth. I'd like to request an updated dual boot video so other users do not also face this issue if they try to dual boot Windows and Linux. Love your content sir!

[@eflinux]

I will do a new video soon.

[@technomatic6285]

@@eflinux Thank you so much sir!

[@b_urak5773]

If you have an Windows installer media which supports to repair Windows, It can be create boot files for you. In the past, I deleted my efi partion (It has 100 mb same as yours) then I installed Linux but my Windows partion still exists then I used Windows media to recover boot files for Windows and then that's worked. I can boot my Linux installation and Windows. I hope It would be helpful for you.

[@TheDarkforce95]

as for my setup , i do create 512mb of efi partition first on gparted os . then later install windows 10 before archlinux . hope it help

[@akhildadhania4630]

Can I use KDE on X and sway both? If yes then any problems I may face?

[@cyberagent009]

Great elaborate tutorial. Thanks for the video. Btw, why are you not linking your odysee channel.

[@eflinux]

It should be in sync, but videos are usually synced after a couple of days.

[@pradeepkrgupta4537]

hey ermano my wm of choice is bspwm but i am facing problem in running freeplane app it show a white background and nothing i can make out i request is is you can find some solution to this problem thanks a ton

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

Sway is a wm I want to use but it is a manual tilling wm. Is there a way to make it similar to dwm where it has automatic "master and stack" layout?

[@anylastwordspod]

check out the project 'dwl' , there's a github repo you can find if you want to try it. it's basically dwm on wayland.

[@DavidHaras]

Another great video thanks Ermanno :)

[@Giovanni2862]

Will you do some more videos on sway someday?

[@tortilladip9991]

Hey man, great vid! But what is the advantage of a separate home partition?

[@eflinux]

The advantage is in case you need to reinstall the system, data in the home partition will not be touched.

[@AlemannoDigitale]

Das ist immer das beste video 😉

[@liddlemeee4763]

Give a heart my dear Ermanno💕

[@Appalling68]

Great video. I often wonder out loud why anyone wants to use a wm in place of a DE. It just all seem too complicated for me.😮

[@apenasumuser8469]

Here I look at your downloads knowing that my internet is 4mb :-)

[@kountheaim]

Nice, thank you.

[@yarosav5396]

meh.., i have nvidia sli videocards and I can enable sli mode only with proprietary nvidia drivers through prime/optimus, seems I wound not be able to use wayland/swaywm =(

[@eflinux]

Yes, NVIDIA does not support wayland yet.

[@yarosav5396]

@@eflinux thank you for your videos!

[@Marwatt]

good as usual!

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@huyo342]

Great video. Thank you

[@eflinux]

Glad you liked it!

[@ronnierush9379]

Great Thanks

[@ABELPL]

I can’t Get the repo 🙄

[@muchvibrant]

I don't think the dd method for creating swap is necessary anymore. I'm not 100% sure but there were some issues with it and the dd method was useful earlier but now u can just create a swap for UEFI as u did for the MBR partition

[@eflinux]

I think you’re referring to the fallocate method. That is not used anymore. The ed method is recommended by the Arch Wiki. You can of course create a swap partition instead.

[@randallpaulallen5538]

@@eflinux I am curious why you used a swap PARTITION for the MBR installation, but a swap FILE for the uefi installation. I found the following quote while doing some research, but since it is rather old (from 2016), I'm curious if it is stll applicable. Since I'll be installing on a uefi laptop and I'll want to suspend/hibernate at times, I'm leaning toward a swap partition, but again, I'd like to know if suspending is still impossible with a swap file. QUOTE: "The only thing to add here is that if you machine is configured to "suspend to disk" what is actually happening is that stuff in memory is written to swap. For this to work, the swap must be on it's own partition as the swap can't be on an active filesystem for this to happen. Therefore, if you have a server, you probably don't use this feature and could happily use a swap file. If you have a laptop, you probably do want a swap partition so you are able to "suspend to file" for hibernation."

[@eflinux]

There is actually not a particular reason, but generally on systems with enough Ram a swapfile is saving space and has the advantage to be deleted and recreated if you need a different size.

[@subhajitmishra007]

Hi Ermanno, thank you for your video. I am not sure why but the mouse pointer does not seem to appear after I load up Sway. I have also installed it in the Virtualbox. I have tried to use the fix command given in the sway wiki but nothing happens. Also, the command swaymsg -t get_outputs doesn't work. It returns "Unable to retrieve socket path". The fix written in the wiki doesn't work either. It would be really nice if you provide a little help here. Thanks Ermanno! Keep up the good work. @EF - Linux Made Simple. PS: I am on a AMD Ryzen Laptop with both Raedon and Nvidia graphics.

[@dineshkoravi]

I'm in same situation. Im using virtualbox. also pressing windows + enter would not spawn terminal emulater.

[@legatto]

where is the git clone file repo

[@eflinux]

Added now, thanks.

[@aaronincognitooops]

i am soaking this up like a fucking sponge

[@bakieral]

So simply i3wm with wayland support (:

[@DrVektor]

Oh my god what is this download speed 95.9 MB/s 😲

[@0x7f2c]

25:12, nuvo? that has to be wrong... A nouveau (English: /nuːˈvoʊ/ French pronunciation: ​[nuvo]) my whole life is a lie...

[@cccddd1871]

Oh God man why are you complicated not necessary installation Archlinux. This video is for very high skill Archlinux users not newbie. Bugs: 1) You using git - only more complicated installation but no need it. 2) you using strong non standard packager "paru" not default pacman. 3) In your material can't find information how you installled boot loader MBR/EFI! You show a lot of unnecessary things by unnecessarily complicating a fairly simple installation process. Ask yourself, who are you directing these inexperienced or advanced videos to? I bet beginners won't even understand half of these things why you do them. This is the most complicated Arch Linux install I've seen in >>10 years of playing with arch. Overall score 2/5 - material only for professional Arch users. I included this material because I was looking for an EFI installation but I did not find it in your material how did you install it? You left out the most important things.

[@eflinux]

I’ve done tons of installations in different styles. Some of them are more complex than others, but I have some on the channel geared to a more classical approach of installing arch.