sway/README.md
Drew DeVault aadcba4b7c Add new dependencies for wayland clients
Cairo for rendering shit, Pango for text rendering, and wayland client
stuff. Thanks @Cloudef, blatantly ripping off his cmake files for this
2015-11-12 08:17:52 -05:00

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# sway [![](https://api.travis-ci.org/SirCmpwn/sway.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/SirCmpwn/sway) [![Donate with fosspay](https://drewdevault.com/donate/static/donate-with-fosspay.png)](https://drewdevault.com/donate?project=4)
"**S**irCmpwn's **Way**land window manager" is a **work in progress**
i3-compatible window manager for [Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/).
Read the [FAQ](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/wiki).
![](https://sr.ht/qxGE.png)
## 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
[See "i3 feature support"](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2)
## Installation
### From Packages
sway is not supported by many distributions yet. Here's a list of packages
available for you to install:
* [Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-git/)
* [Gentoo Linux](https://github.com/zetok/zetok-overlay/)
* [openSUSE](https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:Wayland)
### Compiling from Source
Install dependencies:
* cmake
* [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc)
* wayland
* xwayland
* asciidoc
* pcre
* json-c
* pango
* cairo
Run these commands:
cmake .
make
sudo make install
## 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 `/etc/sway/config` to
`~/.config/sway/config`. Run `man 5 sway` for information on the configuration.
## Running
Run this from a tty (instead of starting x):
sway
If you run it from within x, it will spawn x windows instead of using your
hardware directly (useful for development).