Wayland Desktop Shells

It used to be that if you went down the standalone window manager &#x2F; compositor path on Linux ( i3 , awesome , sway etc) you&#x27;d have to cobble together a panel, screen locking, notifications etc using a bunch of disparate tools. This takes a non-trivial amount of time to get right often involving deep dives into configs and the creation of custom shell script helpers. While this can be fun…