Anyone been thinking about doing a Sway Spin?

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems 
logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to 
install Gnome or KDE first . .

Regards,

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au

[Aleksei Bavshin]

On 8/11/21 5:18 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>  People,
>  
>  I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems 
>  logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to 
>  install Gnome or KDE first . . 
Hi Phillip,

There was a thread about that back in May[1] and Mike Harter published 
kickstarts[2] for building the spin image.

There's also an option to start from minimal (netinstall) image, add 
group definitions and install only the environment you need. I tested 
that on some of my devices with this repo with groups:
https://alebastr.fedorapeople.org/repo/sway-comps.repo.

---

There's no technical blockers for creating a spin. Well, selecting the 
software and making sure that everything works nicely out of the box is 
hard, but definitely doable. And i3 SIG already offered to help and 
share their experience.
IMO, at this point we just need someone interested in this enough to 
coordinate and drive the effort.


[1]: 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
[2]: https://gitlab.com/main89/fedora-sway-kickstart

-- 
With best regards,
Aleksei Bavshin

[Philip Rhoades]

Aleksei,


On 2021-08-12 10:53, Aleksei Bavshin wrote:
>  On 8/11/21 5:18 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > People,
> > 
> > I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems 
> > logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to 
> > install Gnome or KDE first . .
>  
>  Hi Phillip,
>  
>  There was a thread about that back in May[1] and Mike Harter published
>  kickstarts[2] for building the spin image. 

I will have a go at using those . .


>  There's also an option to start from minimal (netinstall) image,
> add
>  group definitions and install only the environment you need. I tested
>  that on some of my devices with this repo with groups:
>  https://alebastr.fedorapeople.org/repo/sway-comps.repo. 

I will test that option out on my old Zenbook . .


>  There's no technical blockers for creating a spin. Well,
> selecting the
>  software and making sure that everything works nicely out of the box
>  is hard, but definitely doable. And i3 SIG already offered to help and
>  share their experience. 

Great - I hope to see this idea move along . .


>  IMO, at this point we just need someone interested in this enough to
>  coordinate and drive the effort.
>  
>  [1]:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
>  [2]: https://gitlab.com/main89/fedora-sway-kickstart 

I am prob not clued-up enough for that but would love to participate . .

Thanks!

P.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au

[Philip Rhoades]

Aleksei,


On 2021-08-14 01:23, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>  Aleksei,
>  
>  
>  On 2021-08-12 10:53, Aleksei Bavshin wrote:
> > On 8/11/21 5:18 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> >> People,
> >> 
> >> I couldn't find anything like this being talked about but it seems 
> >> logical and would really suit me at least! - then we wouldn't have to 
> >> install Gnome or KDE first . .
> > 
> > Hi Phillip,
> > 
> > There was a thread about that back in May[1] and Mike Harter published
> > kickstarts[2] for building the spin image.
>  
>  
>  I will have a go at using those . .
>  
>  
> > There's also an option to start from minimal (netinstall) image, add
> > group definitions and install only the environment you need. I tested
> > that on some of my devices with this repo with groups:
> > https://alebastr.fedorapeople.org/repo/sway-comps.repo.
>  
>  
>  I will test that option out on my old Zenbook . . 

Finally got back to this - I haven't been using the Zenbook because of 
C19 travel restrictions . .

Using the netinstall above worked fine on my F34 desktop as a VM but I 
couldn't get the same thing to work with the Zenbook - the live boot 
from the USB stick gets stuck on a "live-rw" running process . . so I 
defaulted to installing F35KDE live and then installed Sway and WayBar 
etc.


> > There's no technical blockers for creating a spin. Well,
> selecting the
> > software and making sure that everything works nicely out of the box
> > is hard, but definitely doable. And i3 SIG already offered to help and
> > share their experience.
>  
>  
>  Great - I hope to see this idea move along . .
>  
>  
> > IMO, at this point we just need someone interested in this enough to
> > coordinate and drive the effort. 

Happy to help if I can . .

P.


> > [1]:
> >
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
> > [2]: https://gitlab.com/main89/fedora-sway-kickstart
>  
>  
>  I am prob not clued-up enough for that but would love to participate . 
>  .
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  P. 
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au