Sway Installation on Debian Bookworm

[@Richardj410]

I'm a beginner so some of this is over my head but thanks for explaining this. I'm making the switch to debian linux and you're helping. Thanks.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Glad I could help!

[@yasershahian3134]

Thanks to you Drew, I use Debian on my laptop as daily driver and I really enjoy it.

[@jeorgemichaeltablarin4763]

Hey Drew! I like your videos. Just wanted to share that I successfully installed the latest version of Hyprland (version 36) on Debian Trixie a while ago. Your scripts were very helpful

[@investbieren9031]

I run Debian LTS Bullseye with Xfce (vanilla configured with whisker and adjusted panels, ...) and I'm really happy with it. I like your videos because you show whats new and which adjustments are possilbe. Keep going :)

[@tmendoza6]

I have just started using Hyprland on Arch and love it on a secondary system, but I worry because Debian has been my rock-solid stable tank for over 5 years. I think I will give Sway a try on Debian. Thank you for your work.

[@troyt4969]

This was a great video. I use Garuda Linux on my laptop because I really like the default sway settings, but it can be very unstable and crashes/freezes often despite my 8 thread cpu and 16 gigs of ram. I much prefer the solid Debian base, and this is a great starter config. EDIT: Thank you for keeping this project up to date! I tried to install it on another computer a few months back, but the installer file was out of date. Now, everything works correctly.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@TorontoCriticGeoPolitics]

Nice work, and thanks for the custom scripts. Nice colour scheme!

[@maxkim5798]

wow, I learned that setting up zram is such an easy thing from this video, thank you👍

[@itsfish8672]

Sweet vid.

[@dmiracle74]

I just subscribed. Thank you for the video and for sharing your dot files. It helped me with the syntax of changing the border colors. I'm currently trying Void Linux though I'm a long time Debian user. They are both great and reliable distros. I think Sway is going to be in my future. I only need to get a few things working. Like my multimedia keys on my keyboard and some modules on Waybar.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Thanks for the sub!

[@kev2020-z9s]

Have you look at using nala in stead of apt.

[@ichicolco]

Would you specify the script or method of install bspwm in addition to Sway in this build? I watched your "Installing debian testing with BSPWM" video, but that uses xorg. Thanks.

[@ViggoAlmroth]

You should make a video about a GRUB-less install of Debian

[@can1973ier]

I didn't understand what was the 6 min thing was about?

[@nobloat5702]

Thank you for posting. I switched to Debian with Sway when Bookworm came out. I am enjoying the stability of Debian. I do have one annoying issue with Waybar though, it sometimes takes too long to start like 20+ seconds after the desktop had already shown and is functional. I don't know if it's just a me problem, if anyone using it let me know if you have a similar issue.

While I was fiddling with my setup a couple of days ago, I also had this issue for a brief moment, but I'm not quite sure how I solved it and I can't seem to reproduce it now. Maybe you forgot to include the /etc/sway/config.d/50-systemd-user.conf in your sway configuration. It has some environment tweaks.

[@nobloat5702]

@ Thank you for the reply. The issue is strange and doesn't occur every time I boot. But probably something like 1 out of 3 times. I did some search and it seems it has something to do with the gtk portal and sway. I tried different things but the issue returns. I do have include /etc/sway/config.d/* in my config

​@@nobloat5702 If it helps, I have only the xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk packages installed. Some people wrote on GitHub (in the swaywm/sway repo, issue #5732) that they had to remove the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome package.

[@alfajrdream]

Great.

[@domenicoragosta2690]

Are there any known bugs using sway in a vm with qemu-kvm? It freezes when logging in and immediately disconnets

[@_vyas_ayush]

hey drew, i installed debian 12 minimal . and then i wanted to install sway . but when i rebooted i was shown this firmware error. iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin allegedly it is a false bug but it just gets stuck. can you help ?

[@jamesabernathy9744]

You mentioned that SDDM should be safer to use for this, but I could not get SDDM to work. It's remains in a login loop.

[@JustAGuyLinux]

Really? That's surprising

[@q07906]

Looks like the files shown here are no longer in the repo. Why did you remove them ?

[@Onyx-it8gk]

Using your custom install scripts and importing your dotfiles basically makes this video unusable for pretty much everyone.

[@jrabbott34]

Excellent, I like it. Using this as my daily driver. Added a binding to hide/show waybar. Also some swaylock/swayidle variables. Added idle_path startup script to autostart. Also added wlogout. Added rofi beats. ### IDLE & LOCK bindsym mod4+Shift+l exec $lock_path set $idle_path ~/.config/sway/config.d/scripts/idle.sh set $lock_path ~/.config/sway/config.d/scripts/lock.sh

[@boy_deploy]

596mib used wow! 😮

[@2xtreem4u]

with only wayland i would be forced to use nouveau drivers and they suck

[@MyAtaba]

5:41 I think you have miss understanding of time stamps that’s what video editing is for either speed it up or cut it, you ruined it with the silence 👎

[@sigmawarrior.fokeryou]

Do you want a hug?