swaywm

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).

Hey there, I'm going to throw Variety in there as my favourite wallpaper management tool. After setting it up with a URL from wallhaven.cc pointing to your preferred tag or type of wallpaper you won't even have to go look for nice wallpapers yourself (e.g. the URL in my variety settings points to the digital art category). Afterwards you can bindsym commands similiar to these in your SwayWM config file and everything will be nicely integrated:

bindsym Shift+Alt+t exec variety -t trash current wallpaper

bindsym Shift+Alt+f exec variety -f favourite current wallpaper

bindsym Shift+Alt+n exec variety -n switch to next wallpaper

bindsym Shift+Alt+p exec variety -p switch to previous wallpaper

Trash, favourite, switch to next or previous wallpaper. Simply a great way to enjoy nice wallpapers without any effort. And if you then sync your fav-wallpaper folder with the cloud provider of your choice you won't ever lose it.

Helix because it is a nice code editor and has a catpuccin theme by default

There is a lot you can do just with rofi … yes, this fork works with Wayland, and with a just a bit of gluing together, you can get completely functional applications … e.g., https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc, I am in the process (patches welcome!) with writing a pinentry program just with bash at https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/pinentry-rofi (for some reasons all pinentry programs are written in something weird, so it pulls unwanted dependencies to the host system on MicroOS).

foot + emacs ( yes I know it doesn't sound like minimal ;) )