Today I learned, that IntelliJ has support for Wayland Compositor since version 2024.2, so seems like im rather late to the game. Simply go to Help > Edit custom VM options and add -Dawt.toolkit.name=WLToolkit. For me it so far works nicely. And the issue of some overlay windows (like object inspector) not being resizable in Sway … are just gone. Yay 🥳
A few days ago, I switched to the Sway window manager after returning to GNU/Linux a few months ago. Before spending a few years in the macOS ecosystem, I was a long-time user of i3. For those unfamiliar, i3 and Sway perform the same function, but i3 is built for X.org while Sway is designed for Wayland. In this post, I’ll share my impressions, lessons learned, and the challenges I faced during this transition....