Few questions about Manjaro Sway

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Hi,
I’m currently installing and customizing my Manjaro Sway environnement, and I have few questions/issues that I’m currently unable to resolve :

  • How do you customize the login screen ? the default one is just black with with text, but I’d like to add colors, wallpaper, etc.

  • When I switch the focus from a window to another one, for a short time it displays the wallpaper with a quick fade in effect, and I find that really annoying, is it possible to disable it ?

  • in my previous Sway installation I had to add :

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sway
Comment=An i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Exec=/usr/bin/zsh -l -c sway
Type=Application

to solve some issues I had with the way .zshrc was loaded (for integrated term in vscode for instance), is it still required ?

Edit:

  • Also, vscode resizing is really slow, I’m not sur if this is a Sway issue or a vscode issue, any thought on that ? when I try to increase vscode window size (for example if I go from half screen to fullscreen), it has a short delay during which I just see the background before the vscode window snap to take all the space.

Thanks

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I dont know anything about the Sway edition really…

But it sounds like you want to configure the Display Manager.
I dont know which one, if any, it uses.
In lieu of that I will mention that you can add/use one you want … SDDM is an example of a relatively simple agnostic display manager that can be stylized with themes and backgrounds.

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Oh Display Manager was the right word for it, thanks. So mine is GreetD it seems, anlike the fact that it is minimalist, now I’ll find how to customize it a bit !

4

Ok great.
This is probably a good guide then:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Greetd

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I tried to uninstall the package code and went for vscodium-bin instead which does not have the issue, so this part is solved I guess.

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This was due to the program flashfocus (variable set in definitions file) executed from 99-autostart-applications.conf.
I uninstalled it. Also I had a problem with the way tiling was done, and it was due to a similar problem, from program autotiling-rs.