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# sway
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"**S**irCmpwn's **Way**land window manager" is a **work in progress**
i3-compatible window manager for [Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/).
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Read the [FAQ](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/wiki).
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![](https://sr.ht/qxGE.png)
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## Rationale
I use i3 on xorg. Wayland is coming, and [i3way](http://i3way.org/) still has
zero lines of source code after two years.
## Status
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[See "i3 feature support"](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2)
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## Installation
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### From Packages
sway is not supported by many distributions yet. Here's a list of packages
available for you to install:
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* [Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-git/).
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### Compiling from Source
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Install dependencies:
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* cmake
* [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc)
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* xwayland
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* asciidoc
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Run these commands:
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cmake .
make
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sudo make install
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## Configuration
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If you already use i3, then copy your i3 config to `~/.config/sway/config` and
it'll work out of the box. Otherwise, copy `/etc/sway/config` to
`~/.config/sway/config`. Run `man 5 sway` for information on the configuration.
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## Running
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Run this from a tty (instead of starting x):
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sway
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If you run it from within x, it will spawn x windows instead of using your
hardware directly (useful for development).