Sway: PPA for Debian and Ubuntu

[snoack]

I packaged sway for Debian and Ubuntu, and published the package to my PPA. There is already another PPA linked on the wiki page, which I suggest to replace. Some differences from the package I'm providing:

• Based on the latest release version of sway, and I plan to keep up with new upstream releases.
• Compatible with Debian (stable and testing) and every Ubuntu release since the last Ubuntu LTS.
• File capabilities are set automatically.
• WLC is statically linked (as opposed to be packaged separately).
• The files used to generate the package are published on GitHub (in the debian branch of my clone).

@SirCmpwn, what do you think?

[ddevault]

Can some Debian/Ubuntu users try this guy's PPA out and let me know how well it works?

[captnfab]

I tried the package. It installs correctly on debian stretch.
I ran the programme inside an Xorg server, and it worked. Can't tell more.

I also checked the debian package sources, it looks clean and reasonable :)

[ddevault]

I don't really care if it runs under X. That's a debugging feature. What matters is if it runs with the DRM backend.

[captnfab]

I ran it into a tty. It works well. I have keyboard handling problems, but I assume it has nothing to do with the Debian package.

[ddevault]

It might. Can you elaborate?

[captnfab]

Ok. But first, I must say it's the first time I try sway and about the first time I try a wayland compositor.
My X keyboard setting is fr, variant bepo. It failed to recognize that. I changed it with the setxkbmap command, which I was a bit surprised to see working out of x. Some keys weren't functionnal, like & which was mixed up with up_arrow or something alike.

Another problem, probably unrelated to keyboard, I encountered after further testing was that firefox's menus were unstable or not shown at all. I was unable to enable scripts on a webpag using the "noscript" icon in the toolbar, no menu appeared.

Sorry if some of my remarks are irrelevant, I'm quite new to this project and just decided to give it a try since I'm an i3 user and found .deb package for sway today...

[ddevault]

You're right, none of that is relevant to the PPA. @snoack feel free to put your PPA on the wiki

[snoack]

@captnfab: Thanks for testing!

@SirCmpwn: Done.

[snoack]

@captnfab: The Debian package from my PPA should now use the keyboard settings from /etc/default/keyboard as of version 0.13.0-2. This might fix your keyboard problems. At least it makes sure that the same keyboard layout/model/variant/options are in effect that you have elsewhere.

[cawilliamson]

@snoack Hey there - any estimate on when 0.15 will be added to your apt repo? 👍

[snoack]

I just updated the PPA to sway 0.15. Thanks, for the heads up!

[sainoba]

@snoack Hey there - any estimate on when 0.15.1 will be added to your apt repo? :+1:

[JakeBrawer]

@snoack Hey there - any estimate on when 0.15.2 will be added to your apt repo? :+1:

[snoack]

Sorry for the delay. I plan to update the PPA soon.

[JakeBrawer]

@snoack Any updates?

[luksak]

@snoack It would be nice to have 1.0-beta.1. Could you update your PPA?

[ddevault]

Perhaps it would be wise to let multiple people have push access to your PPA, @snoack?

[betkuriamtikslui]

@snoack any plans for 1.0-beta.1?

[Sunderland93]

I also create experimental PPA with latest versions of wlroots and Sway. For now only for Ubuntu 19.04 https://launchpad.net/~samoilov-lex/+archive/ubuntu/sway

[emersion]

Excellent. Can you add it to the wiki?

[Sunderland93]

Done

[thuandt]

@Sunderland93 Do you have plan to also build for bionic?

[Sunderland93]

@thuandt Bionic has very old libraries, needed for building Sway. It's possible, but I dont have a time for it now. I'll take a look of it closer on weekend.

[techtonik]

@Sunderland93 any plans to update PPA to 1.1.1?

[Sunderland93]

@techtonik Yes, soon