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date: '2025-02-06'
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    21st Oct 2026  

##### [Why I switched to mangowm, and why you might be interested](https://discocat.me/blog/which-i-switched-to-mangowm-and-why-you-might-be-interested)

A few months ago, I switched to mangowm. And you might be interested as to why, as sway was really doing great for me.

It's tied to a few things, and I'll list them here.

# Release cycle is faster with mangowm

Sway releases are very spread apart in time, cause they clearly aim for stability, and...

    21st Oct 2026  

##### [Unlocking gnome keyring for sure with Noctalia-greeter](https://discocat.me/blog/unlocking-gnome-keyring-for-sure-with-noctalia-greeter)

When I switched to mango a few months ago (I'll have to make a blog article about that some day, so you know why, but mostly it's the monocle layout, awesome for apps that don't like tiling), I also started using Noctalia, which adds "DE-like" functionalities to a window manager.

But then, I also...

    31st Jul 2025  

##### [Chroot linux (with or without btrfs subvolumes)](https://discocat.me/blog/chroot-archlinux-with-or-without-btrfs-subvolumes)

On arch and other distributions, for many reasons, you might need to repair stuff that went wrong after an update, if you rebooted before fixing the stuff that broke.

Repairing the bootloader, reinstalling a mandatory part of the system, it's all doable without reinstalling.

## First, boot a live U

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    2nd Jul 2025  

##### [Screen sharing with sway](https://discocat.me/blog/screen-sharing-with-sway)

So, sway is an awesome window manager, but to stream/screenrecord correctly without black flashes... you need to disable something called direct scanout.

To do this, you must pass an environment variable in the config file used by login managers to start sway.

It is located at `/usr/share/waylan...`

    27th Feb 2025  

##### [Arch, btrfs, snapper and btrfs-assistant](https://discocat.me/blog/arch-btrfs-snapper-and-btrfs-assistant)

This whole article starts with the idea that you just installed Archlinux, with the archinstall tool, using that tool's btrfs subvolume setup.

If you aren't using that, you'll have to adapt the steps to your situation.

## Installing yay/paru/any AUR helper.

First, install yay or paru.

For yay i...

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  - [Why I switched to mangowm, and why you might be interested](https://discocat.me/blog/which-i-switched-to-mangowm-and-why-you-might-be-interested.md)
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