[dijit]

I know this is about sway, but I feel I can't pass up this opportunity to profess my undying love for i3. The learning curve is relatively minor for such a slim powerful system I'm truly amazed. I really can't thank the original author(s) enough.

RE: Sway, I'm glad they hit this milestone, I have a friend who is using it and he claims it's almost as good, (although he hasn't found a way to do -gaps yet..).

Last time I used Wayland/Sway I couldn't get decent font rendering. Has the situation improved?

[Sir_Cmpwn]

Sway maintainer here, i3-gaps is fully supported. Can you direct your friend to our support channels? #sway on irc.freenode.net, or open a GitHub issue.

Font rendering on sway is in all respects equivalent to font rendering on i3.

[lscotte]

i3 really is just incredible and simple - and not at all opinionated about what other components you use (statusbar, menu, notification system, screen locker, etc).

[santix]

And also its documentation is excellent.

[trulyrandom]

>Last time I used Wayland/Sway I couldn't get decent font rendering. Has the situation improved?

Wayland and Sway don't touch font rendering as far as I know. There should be no difference between font rendering on X and Wayland. Perhaps you were getting blurred out fonts due to scaling?

[dijit]

I guess what I mean is the the font rendering tweaks to give you really nice font dithering etc; didn't used to work. I'm thinking the freetype2 project for example.

The fonts always appeared super sharp and jagged on Wayland when compared to X11.