Sway Installation on Debian Bookworm
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Published 2024-03-14
Distro: Debian 12 Bookworm (Stable)
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JustAGuyLinux bookworm scripts
github.com/drewgrif/bookworm-scripts
=== Contents of this Video ===
0:00 - Intro
4:28 - Debian Bookworm minimal install (fast - sparse commentary)
12:07 - Installing Sway
17:44 - Customizing Sway
20:30 - Using Sway
26:25 - Thoughts on Sway and Debian
Updated to Debian Bookworm
Debian packages determined by how endeavouros installs their version of sway.
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All Comments (21)
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wow, I learned that setting up zram is such an easy thing from this video, thank you👍
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Thanks to you Drew, I use Debian on my laptop as daily driver and I really enjoy it.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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Sweet vid.
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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
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I've been a Debian (and Ubuntu) with Wayland user for a while now. Xorg hasn't been in my life for a few years.
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Have you look at using nala in stead of apt.
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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.
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Are there any known bugs using sway in a vm with qemu-kvm? It freezes when logging in and immediately disconnets
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I didn't understand what was the 6 min thing was about?
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You should make a video about a GRUB-less install of Debian
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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596mib used wow! 😮
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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
