TL;DR – Jump to the bottom to find the solution I installed Sway, my favorite Wayland compositor, on Debian Trixie several weeks ago. There were bumps along the way, as Wayland does things very differently than the X display server tha I'm used to… but overall I have been pleased with the results. That said, there has been one issue that had been a thorn in my side: my media keys did not work.

• troubleshooting
• sway
• wayland

With the Sway WM, you get a very sparse compositor (the Wayland equivalent of a window manager) and a lot of possibilities. Right out of the box, it is often just configured to open a terminal and navigate between windows and virtual desktops. But in daily use, I do miss a lot of the niceties of a more polished desktop. I usually end up coming up with solutions to these myself, which suits me fine!

• sway
• wayland

Occasionally, due to circumstances entirely within my control, I find myself in an odd situation. Bumping into edge cases, doing things the hard way... for whatever reason, I seem to have a knack for finding the approach with the most exotic issues. What follows, is one of these scenarios.

• linux
• networking
• server
• security
• terminal

I feel ridiculous having to write any of this down, but leaving anything up for misinterpretation is dangerous. Each one of these truths should be "self evident", to borrow a phrase, but the current political climate in the United States requires each of us to make clear where we stand. So, this is where I stand.

• personal

Backups are important. Money is important. I don't want backups to take up all my money, and I have several terabytes to back up. So, what's a girl to do?

• linux
• server
• troubleshooting