sway

"SirCmpwn's Wayland window manager" is a work in progress i3-compatible window manager for Wayland. Read the FAQ. Join the IRC channel (#sway on irc.freenode.net).

Rationale

I use i3 on xorg. Wayland is coming, and i3way still has zero lines of source code after two years.

Status

• i3 feature support
• IPC feature support
• i3bar feature support
• i3-gaps feature support

Installation

From Packages

sway is not supported by many distributions yet. Here's a list of packages available for you to install:

• Arch Linux
• Gentoo Linux
• openSUSE
• Void Linux

For other distros, see this wiki page.

Compiling from Source

Install dependencies:

• cmake
• wlc
• wayland
• xwayland
• asciidoc
• pcre
• json-c
• pango *
• cairo *
• gdk-pixbuf2 *
• pam **
• imagemagick (required for image capture with swaygrab)
• ffmpeg (required for video capture with swaygrab)

*Only required for swaybar, swaybg, and swaylock

**Only required for swaylock

Run these commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc ..
make
sudo make install

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

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

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

Instead of running startx, run sway. You can run sway from within X as well, which is useful for testing.