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Brian Ashworth 19586ab768 Fix reload freeze when not modsetting current mode
This fixes the issue of the display freezing on reload with
wlroots#1545.

On master, all output configs are applied on reload. This may cause an
output to have its config applied up to three times, instead of just
once. The three cases are: output name, output identifier, and wildcard.
Not only is this inefficient, but it can cause swaybg to be spawned and
immediately killed.

However, swaybg requires two roundtrips of wl_display (to obtain needed
globals) before it enters its normal event loop. Modesetting will
roundtrip the wl_display. Without modesetting, waitpid for killing
swaybg could block infinitely due to swaybg being blocked by
wl_display_roundtrip.

This only configured an output once. It either uses the wildcard config
or creates an empty wildcard config and applies that. This also fixes a
bug where an output would not be reset when there is no output config to
apply to it.
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sway Fix reload freeze when not modsetting current mode 2019-02-18 15:11:48 -05:00
swaybar tray: fix memory leaks 2019-02-18 15:11:48 -05:00
swaybg Removed unused wlroots dependency for sway(bg|bar|msg|nag) 2019-01-21 13:04:15 -05:00
swaymsg ipc: handle unnamed xkb_active_layout_name 2019-02-11 10:22:53 -05:00
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sway

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

If you'd like to support sway development, please contribute to SirCmpwn's Patreon page.

Release Signatures

Releases are signed with B22DA89A and published on GitHub.

Installation

From Packages

Sway is available in many distributions. Try installing the "sway" package for yours. If it's not available, check out this wiki page for information on installation for your distributions.

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

Install dependencies:

  • meson *
  • wlroots
  • wayland
  • wayland-protocols *
  • pcre
  • json-c
  • pango
  • cairo
  • gdk-pixbuf2 **
  • scdoc >= 1.8.1 (optional: man pages) *
  • git *

*Compile-time dep

**optional: required for swaybg

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).