What is this?
Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor: the program that draws and arranges your windows on Linux, tiling them automatically like the i3 window manager.
Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor: the program that draws and arranges your windows on Linux, tiling them automatically like the i3 window manager.What does 'i3-compatible' mean — is this basically i3 on Wayland?Yes: Sway reproduces how the i3 tiling window manager behaves and is configured, but it runs as a native Wayland compositor instead of an X11 window manager, so you get the i3 workflow on the newer display protocol.
Yes: Sway reproduces how the i3 tiling window manager behaves and is configured, but it runs as a native Wayland compositor instead of an X11 window manager, so you get the i3 workflow on the newer display protocol.What do I need to compile it from source?The meson and ninja build tools, plus the wlroots, wayland, wayland-protocols, pcre2, json-c, pango, cairo and gdk-pixbuf2 libraries. swaybg for wallpapers, scdoc for man pages and git are optional extras.
The meson and ninja build tools, plus the wlroots, wayland, wayland-protocols, pcre2, json-c, pango, cairo and gdk-pixbuf2 libraries. swaybg for wallpapers, scdoc for man pages and git are optional extras.What is wlroots?It is the library for building Wayland compositors that Sway is built on. It is a required compile-time dependency, and the development setup wiki covers building sway and wlroots together from source.
It is the library for building Wayland compositors that Sway is built on. It is a required compile-time dependency, and the development setup wiki covers building sway and wlroots together from source.Can it show a wallpaper and a system tray?Yes — the optional swaybg companion draws wallpapers, and system tray support comes via gdk-pixbuf2, with optional extra image-format libraries for more tray formats.
Yes — the optional swaybg companion draws wallpapers, and system tray support comes via gdk-pixbuf2, with optional extra image-format libraries for more tray formats.Are the GitHub releases signed?Yes — releases are signed with the key E88F5E48 and published on GitHub, so you can verify what you download before installing.
Yes — releases are signed with the key E88F5E48 and published on GitHub, so you can verify what you download before installing.What are similar projects?i3, rift, Waybar, rofi, AeroSpace, rustcast, omarchy-workspace-layout, spectacle
i3, rift, Waybar, rofi, AeroSpace, rustcast, omarchy-workspace-layout, spectacleWhich topics is it in?tiling, i3, tiling-window-manager, system, wayland, operating-system, systems-programming, app, c, customization, utility, desktop
tiling, i3, tiling-window-manager, system, wayland, operating-system, systems-programming, app, c, customization, utility, desktop