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This is my preferred terminal emulator now. Seeing as the default config
file is basically "Drew's preferences watered down a bit for a general
audience", I reckon it should be updated accordingly :)
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client Rename symbol set_cloexec to sway_set_cloexec, remove duplicates. 2019-11-01 12:41:08 -04:00
common common/log: write log importance 2020-12-10 09:26:02 +01:00
completions i3-compat: add GET_BINDING_STATE IPC command 2020-06-14 00:55:14 -04:00
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protocols protocols: update layer-shell-unstable-v1 to v4 2021-01-12 22:38:45 +01:00
sway Add tab dragging functionality 2021-05-06 00:24:55 -04:00
swaybar swaybar: fail gracefully on tokener creation fail 2021-03-22 14:10:53 +01:00
swaymsg Make command line option lists const 2021-02-04 09:49:06 +01:00
swaynag Use execlp("sh") instead of execl("/bin/sh") 2021-04-22 23:12:49 +02:00
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.gitignore Allocate minimum size necessary in pango text functions. (#3473) 2019-01-20 15:03:30 +01:00
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sway

English - 日本語 - Français - Українська - Español - Polski - 中文-简体 - Deutsch - Nederlands - Русский - 中文-繁體 - Português - Danish - 한국어 - Română - Magyar - Türkçe

sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor. Read the FAQ. Join the IRC channel (#sway on irc.freenode.net).

Release Signatures

Releases are signed with E88F5E48 and published on GitHub.

Installation

From Packages

Sway is available in many distributions. Try installing the "sway" package for yours.

If you're interested in packaging sway for your distribution, stop by the IRC channel or shoot an email to sir@cmpwn.com for advice.

Compiling from Source

Check out this wiki page if you want to build the HEAD of sway and wlroots for testing or development.

Install dependencies:

  • meson *
  • wlroots
  • wayland
  • wayland-protocols *
  • pcre
  • json-c
  • pango
  • cairo
  • gdk-pixbuf2 (optional: system tray)
  • scdoc (optional: man pages) *
  • git (optional: version info) *

*Compile-time dep

Run these commands:

meson build/
ninja -C build/
sudo ninja -C build/ install

On systems without logind, you need to suid the sway binary:

sudo chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/sway

Sway will drop root permissions shortly after startup.

Configuration

If you already use i3, then copy your i3 config to ~/.config/sway/config and it'll work out of the box. Otherwise, copy the sample configuration file to ~/.config/sway/config. It is usually located at /etc/sway/config. Run man 5 sway for information on the configuration.

Running

Run sway from a TTY. Some display managers may work but are not supported by sway (gdm is known to work fairly well).