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Saving keys and passwords in Sway with Gnome Keyring

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!

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Fixing media keys in Sway

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.

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