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Destroyed Fully functional sway desktop with optional GNOME integration under Debian Ubuntu (markdown)
Drew DeVault
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## Introduction
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**Note**: These instructions are community maintained and are not supported by sway.
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This page is intended to help you set up a fully-functional sway desktop environment integrated with GNOME under Debian 10/Ubuntu. Features that will be covered:
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- Manual and automatic screen locking using `swayidle` and `swaylock`
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- Working notifications with `mako`.
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- Nice application launcher and exit menu using `fzf` and `kitty`
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- Taking of screenshots, optionally selecting a region, using `grim` and `slurp`
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- Volume control with multimedia keys
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- Laptop screen brightness adjustment using `brightnessctl` and bound to keyboard keys
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- Nice status bar using `Waybar`
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- GNOME integration, so that you can run GNOME apps and use GNOME settings to manage the network.
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These instruction were tested under Debian 10 (Buster), but should also work under Ubuntu with minimal modifications.
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## Sway
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To do a basic install of sway under Debian 10, follow the instructions on the page [Debian-10-(Buster)-Installation](./Debian-10-(Buster)-Installation). They should also work with minimal modifications under Ubuntu.
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Then make a local copy of the default configuration, in order to customize it:
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```
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mkdir ~/.config/sway
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cp /usr/local/etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway/config
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```
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## Screen locking
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To configure manual and automatic screen locking, we'll be using Sway's own swaylock and swayidle. Install then both from source:
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```
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sudo apt install libpam0g-dev
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# swaylock
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cd ~/sway-src
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git clone https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock.git
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cd swaylock
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git checkout 1.4
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meson build
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sudo ninja -C build install
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# swayidle
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cd ~/sway-src
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git clone https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle.git
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cd swayidle
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git checkout 1.5
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meson build
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sudo ninja -C build install
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```
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Now edit `~/.config/sway/config` and add the following example settings to start swayidle with Sway, and so enable auto locking and monitor poweroff:
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```
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exec swayidle -w \
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timeout 600 'swaylock -f -c 000000' \
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timeout 300 'swaymsg "output * dpms off"' \
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resume 'swaymsg "output * dpms on"' \
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before-sleep 'swaylock -f -c 000000'
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```
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I find it easier to put it right after the `Variables` section. The arguments are quite self-explanatory.
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You can also set a key combination to trigger a screen lock, like for example by adding this line to sway's config:
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```
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bindsym $mod+Shift+Alt+l exec swaylock -c 000000
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```
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## Notifications with mako
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Mako is a lightweight Wayland notification daemon. Let's install it from source:
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```
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cd ~/sway-src
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git clone https://github.com/emersion/mako.git
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cd mako
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git checkout v1.4
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meson build
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sudo ninja -C build install
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```
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If you want to customize mako:
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```
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mkdir ~/.config/mako
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editor ~/.config/mako/config # or open with your gui editor
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```
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Here is an example configuration:
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anchor=bottom-right
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border-radius=5
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default-timeout=10000
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height=500
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width=400
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```
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Now edit `~/.config/sway/config` and add the line `exec mako` somewhere, to start mako with sway.
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## Application launcher and exit menu
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We'll improvise an application launcher using `fzf` and the terminal emulator `kitty`, it'll look like this:
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We need the newest version of kitty for proper wayland support, so we'll install the binary release from their GitHub repository. Install them:
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sudo apt install fzf curl xz-utils suckless-tools
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sudo mkdir /opt/kitty
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curl -L https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases/download/v0.14.4/kitty-0.14.4-x86_64.txz | sudo tar xvJ -C /opt/kitty
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sudo ln -s /opt/kitty/bin/kitty /usr/local/bin
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```
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Now configure a profile for the kitty+fzf launcher:
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mkdir -p ~/.config/kitty
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cat <<EOF >~/.config/kitty/fzf-launcher.config
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font_family DejaVu Sans Mono
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font_size 20
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enable_audio_bell no
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remember_window_size no
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initial_window_width 50c
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initial_window_height 10c
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background_opacity 0.85
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EOF
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```
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Then edit `~/.config/sway/config` and replace the line `set $menu dmenu_path | dmenu | xargs swaymsg exec --` with the following:
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set $fzf_launcher kitty --config \"$HOME/.config/kitty/fzf-launcher.config\" --class fzf-launcher --detach
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set $menu $fzf_launcher sh -c \"dmenu_path | fzf | xargs -r swaymsg exec\"
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for_window [app_id="fzf-launcher"] focus, floating enabled, border pixel 1
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```
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This will setup a basic menu launcher that can be summoned with the default `$meta+d` key combination.
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### Exit menu
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This is how the exit menu will look:
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We'll use this simple script: <https://gist.github.com/davidrios/41d72ef3f97104400c353bab3b1b89ab>, like so:
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cd /tmp
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curl -L https://gist.githubusercontent.com/davidrios/41d72ef3f97104400c353bab3b1b89ab/raw/a305a9ef3e44bac370de5165eaabaf3ce53e207b/sway-exit | tee sway-exit
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sudo cp sway-exit /usr/local/bin/
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sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sway-exit
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```
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Then edit `~/.config/sway/config` and replace the line:
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bindsym $mod+Shift+e exec swaynag -t warning -m 'You pressed the exit shortcut. Do you really want to exit sway? This will end your Wayland session.' -b 'Yes, exit sway' 'swaymsg exit'
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```
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```
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bindsym $mod+Shift+e exec $fzf_launcher /usr/local/bin/sway-exit
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```
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Now the default `$mod+Shift+e` key combination will show a nice exit menu with Logout, Sleep, Reboot and Shutdown options.
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## Taking screenshots
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For this we'll use [grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) and [slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp). Let's install them first:
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sudo apt install libjpeg-dev
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cd ~/sway-src
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git clone https://github.com/emersion/grim.git
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cd grim
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git checkout v1.2.0
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meson build
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sudo ninja -C build install
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cd ~/sway-src
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git clone https://github.com/emersion/slurp.git
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cd slurp
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git checkout v1.2.0
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meson build
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sudo ninja -C build install
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```
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Now to set sway key bindings. In the example below, the `PrtScn` key save a screenshot of the whole desktop and `Alt+PrtScn` lets you select a region to capture. Add them to the sway config:
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set $screenshot_file \"$HOME/Pictures/screenshot-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S').png\"
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bindsym Print exec grim -s1 $screenshot_file
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bindsym Alt+Print exec (slurp | grim -g- -s1 $screenshot_file)
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```
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## Volume control with multimedia keys
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Put these keybindings on your Sway config file:
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```
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bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ $(printf "%s\n" 100 $(($(pacmd dump-volumes | grep -m1 Sink | grep -Po '\d+(?=%)' | head -n1) + 3)) | sort -g | head -n1)%
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bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -3%
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bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle
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bindsym XF86AudioMicMute exec pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle
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```
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Install brightnessctl:
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sudo apt install brightnessctl
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```
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And put these keybindings on your Sway config file:
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```
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bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec brightnessctl set 5%-
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bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec brightnessctl set +5%
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```
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