Sway Adds Relative Pointer Support To Its 1.0 Feature List

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Sway Adds Relative Pointer Support To Its 1.0 Feature List

Just in time for the Sway 1.0 release, support for the Wayland pointer constraints and relative pointer protocols has been merged, which is important for handling various games primarily first person shooters...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sway-Lands-Relative-Pointers

[johanb]

video capture support

I had not heard that sway had support for this before, after some googling I found these links:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1612

https://blog.spirotot.com/2017/08/21/a-dirty-hack-to-enable-acceptable-sway-wm-screen-recording/

While it might "work" I can't find anything about being implemented with pipewire or the API being upstream to wayland-protocols.

[Hi-Angel]

Cool news! But having still no support for usual global shortcuts, i.e. ones that work independently of keyboard layout; and also no per-window keyboard layout, makes me sad

That said, no relative pointer support was one of minor reasons I couldn't use it everyday. So, great news, yea.

[PluMGMK]

Hmm, I'd better go check that out right now!

EDIT: Tried it on Portal, works like a charm!