[sway] trying wayland once again

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Please lecture me, I'm somewhat new to linux (I use it for some years now, but only Ubuntu, so you know). What's the point of wayland?

I mean, I get that it's an alternative to Xorg, and it merges the server and client, but what does this mean to the end user?
- the main thing i've heard about it is that it's more actively developed than Xorg
- i dont get screen tearing in games, videos or browsers on wayland and also seem to be getting less issues with compositing, which was a problem on x11 with i915 drivers for me
  
  uhm... you get screen tearing on x11? Don't you just turn on full composition pipeline or freesync in your graphics driver settings or by directly editing xorg.conf?
- there is no reason to use something else as an enduser. Maybe as a backup or testing setup you could install something else, but apart from that...
dead simple. I like it
What menu is that?
- im not comfortable with shell yet, but here's what i did
  in sway config i have
  
  for_window [title="example_launcher"] floating enable
  set $menu foot -T "example_launcher" -w 240x240 -e sh -c 'dmenu_path | example.sh | xargs swaymsg exec --'
  
  and somewhere in my $PATH i have example.sh which looks like this
  
  #!/usr/bin/sh
  #
  out=$(fzf -e --print-query "$@")
  in=$(echo "$out" | head -1)
  res=$(echo "$out" | tail -1 )
  if test -n "$res"; then
  cmd=$res
  else
  cmd=$in
  fi
  exec echo "$cmd"
  
  there are a couple small issues with the set up though, and also u do need dmenu installed
  
  Can you put this in a code-block?
- fzf, but i had to wrap it to make it act like a menu

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