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jdollar 5024aa1275 Detail Fedora Source build requirements

Adding some details on issues found when trying to build sway from source in Fedora

2018-10-23 07:33:22 -04:00

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"SirCmpwn's Wayland compositor" is a work in progress 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
xwayland
libinput >= 1.6.0
libcap
pcre
json-c >= 0.13
pango
cairo
gdk-pixbuf2 *
pam **
dbus >= 1.10 ***
scdoc (required for man pages)
git

*Only required for swaybar, swaybg, and swaylock

**Only required for swaylock

***Only required for tray support

Extra Fedora Requirements

For the required version of wayland server (>= 16) to be installed through dnf you'll need to be on fedora >= 29.

Additionally in order to have meson and ninja run correctly you will need to install select *-devel packages along with the ninja-build package:

sudo dnf install json-c-devel pcre-devel wayland-protocols-devel cairo-devel pango-devel wayland-devel ninja-build

For the wlroots package, as of 10/21/2018, the version in dnf is 0.0.1. The current release of wlroots is at 1.0. It is recommended to install wlroots from source because of the mismatch in versions.

Build Commands

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).

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