Despite the “help” from an LLM, I’m ultimately no better off on my first foray into sway+waybar than I was when I started by copying and tweaking the default config files. Lots of “Oh, I see the problem, let me rewrite the config file and then it’ll work!” followed by “Oh, I see the problem, let me rewrite the config file and then it’ll work this time!” and so on, with very little success.
I’ve gone back to configuring sway and waybar by hand and will probably get more learning out of that approach anyway. However, one of the challenges I’ve run into is a ton of content along the lines of “wofi/rofi/rofi-wayland/dmenu/mako/grim/swayshot/light/brightnessctl/etc.” is absolutely the best way to do X task, and is a clone of/fork of/similar to [tool I’m unfamiliar with]. I feel like there’s so much information out there, but I don’t have a good “entry point” to start working through it all.
For the sway users out there, what are the useful add-ons that you’re currently using, or have had experience with in the past? Why do you use that particular tool over another one that does something similar?