Fedora 39 : Foot - the sway terminal.

Today, I will show how to use a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator named Foot.

You can install it easily with the DNF5 tool :

The project can be found on this codeberg repo.

On the sawy desktop environment, you can use Win+D keys just to type a command to start an application.

You can start easily by typing foot or you can type on an open terminal, see:

[mythcat@fedora ~]$ foot
warn: wayland.c:1509: fractional scaling not available
warn: wayland.c:1512: no server-side cursors available, falling back to client-side cursors
warn: fcft.c:583: failed to get full font name
warn: fcft.c:583: failed to get full font name

I used updatedb and locate commands to find the foot.ini file and change some settings like font size, and more :

Fedora 38 : Sway on VirtualBox.

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.

You can find this desktop at this GitHub project.

The official webpage comes with a video tutorial on how to use it.

Installation is simple with these commands using the dnf tool:

# dnf group install sway-desktop-environment
# dnf install sway-config-fedora

It is possible to ask you for additional arguments for installation like this: --allowerasing or --skip-broken.

After installation, reboot and select sway from the desktop switcher

NOTE: The display for virtual video card from VirtualBox need to be set to Enable 3D Acceleration.

Let's see the result of this desktop environment ...