diff --git a/Differences-from-i3.md b/Differences-from-i3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd1a1e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Differences-from-i3.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Several [i3](https://i3wm.org/) features [remain to be implemented](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2). + +* Runs natively on [Wayland](https://wayland.freedesktop.org/) (duh) +* You can use your `floating_modifier` to resize and move tiled windows +* Sway includes the features of the i3-gaps patches +* Sway handles things like output configuration (rather than something like xrandr) +* Sway supports multiple non-modifier keys when assigning key bindings +* The default keybindings in sway are different from those in i3. Read your sway config to learn them, or copy over your i3 config to use what you're used to. +* Sway handles your wallpaper +* Sway handles input configuration (man sway-input) +* Sway is documented through man pages, rather than the website +* A few i3 commands only make sense on X11 and aren't present in sway +* You may occasionally run into minor inconsistencies between sway syntax and i3 syntax. Just tweak your commands to be a bit more explicit if necessary +* i3lock forks into the background when run. For swaylock, this behavior has to be explicitly requested via `-f` \ No newline at end of file