I'm a i3 user that has been trying to migrate to sway.
I use it with these environment variables:
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
export XDG_STATE_HOME="$HOME/.local/var/state"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.local/config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.local/var/cache"
Which gives me a clean home with only ~/.local
for my dotfiles.
And issue that I've noticed that I haven't been able to fix is that every time that I start sway, hyprland and also the alpha of cosmic is that I get a new ~/.cache
directory created in my home that contains a mesa_shader_cache
directory.
Btw in the middle of writing this post I just ran into another bug, thunar for some reason decided to steal my key presses from the web browser, and even though I had the browser window focused as I have sway configured to change the border color of the window with focus, thunar was like nope wtf.
Thank you all for the help, ended up opening a bug report at sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191
It pulls the latest chromium from googleapis.com so it can do everything.