Hello all, I love finding applications that feel minimal and do their job well, i.e. zathura, qview, etc.

Do any of you have applications you feel fit with your swaywm experience well?

  • TrinitronX@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure most folks are aware of the list on Are we Wayland yet?, which has a lot of great apps. Most of the standard desktop ones are already included with Manjaro Sway edition. However, one glaring omission was a calculator app (bc is of course included and usable on the terminal, but can be rather cumbersome for complex calculations).

    Today, I stumbled across a very nice alternative: speedcrunch. So far it’s been working great natively on Sway thanks to being based on the latest qt5-tools. Nice fast keyboard-based interface with the option to use a GUI keypad, binary (“Bitfield”) input, support for expressions, functions, mathematical constants, smart completion, complex numbers, and more!

    Really much happier with this app when compared to the more basic gnome-calculator, and even GNU bc (“basic calculator” or “bash calc” as I like to call it).

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      1 year ago

      I’ve never tried anything other than Emacs calc mode, except once I tried gnome-calculator.

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      1 year ago

      What do you mean? I’m using at least wofi and firefox on Sway. I’d prefer Qutebrowser, but it prints zillions of errors.

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      1 year ago

      It is not much known but it is an excellent piece of software written in Ocaml: orpie is a Curses based full-featured RPN calculator (like emacs calc).