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Historically we've been sticking with the last release number in the master branch. However that's a bit confusing, people can't easily figure out whether they're using a release or a work-in-progress snapshot. Only the commit hash appended to the version number may help, but that's not very explicit and disappears when using a tarball. We could bump the version in master to the next release number. However during the RC cycle there would be a downgrade from 1.8 to 1.8-rc1. Also it would be hard to tell the difference between a stable release and an old snapshot. This patch introduces a new pre-release identifier, "dev". It's alphabetically before "rc" so it should be correctly sorted by semver comparisons. "dev" is upgraded to "rc" (and then to stable) when doing a release. The master branch always uses a "dev" version, only release branches use "rc" or stable versions. |
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| sway | ||
| swaybar | ||
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| .editorconfig | ||
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| config.in | ||
| CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| meson_options.txt | ||
| meson.build | ||
| README.de.md | ||
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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.libera.chat).
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.
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 nor seatd, 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).