sway

SwayWM

About install and run SwayWM in Arch Linux

THIS ARTICLE IS OBSOLETE AND IN THE FUTURE WILL UPDATE FOR VOID LINUX

Introduction

Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor. Actually, sway includes all of i3’s features but in Wayland. Wayland is a display server protocol like x11, but more it’s secure and faster.

Installing

Run this command to install wayland and sway in your arch machine:

sudo pacman -S wayland sway

Now you have wayland and sway, but still, you need to install other dep endencies! This rice depended on some apps and tools like:

• i3status-rs: bar
• rofi: appliction launcher
• kitty: terminal
• firefox: browser
• azote: wallpaper manger
• wl-clipboard: cli copy/paste
• clipman: clipboard manger
• slurp: region selection
• grim: screenshot tools
• sway-systemd: Systemd integration

Installing some of these apps and tools is a bit painful! A few of these packages are not in Arch repositories, but you can install these from aur or source.

Installing from Arch repo:

sudo pacman -S rofi kitty firefox clipman slurp grim

Installing others via paru:

paru -S azote wl-clipboard sway-systemd

Now everything is Ok, and you can go to the next step.

Configuration:

For configuration of sway, just copy .config/sway directory into your $HOME:

cp -rv .config/sway ~/.config/sway

i3status-rs

If you want to use i3status-rs, copy .config/i3status-rs directory into your $HOME:

cp -rv .config/sway ~/.config/sway

Run:

If you want to run sway, you can use a DM or run below command on the TTY:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session sway

Enjoye it!