To install the wayland session, follow these steps:

1. Install the regolith-session-sway package and it’s dependencies.
2. Reboot
3. Select “Regolith on Wayland” session in the login panel

Hardware Support #

Those using proprietary nvidia drivers for their graphics cards must set regolith.sway.unsupported_gpu: true in their XResources. This is not an issue with the open source drivers nouveau. See more here.

Bar Changes #

The wayland session uses i3status-rs rather than i3xrocks. i3status-rs provides a crisper and more resource-efficient approach to system monitoring. However at this time the i3xrocks packages for status indicators are not integrated with i3status-rs. To use a custom configuration with i3status-rs, users will need to put their config file at the location of their choosing and they’ll need to set the wm.bar.status_config to the absolute path of their config file in their XResources. See the upstream project documentation for further details.