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sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor. Read the FAQ. Join the IRC channel (#sway on irc.libera.chat).

Releases are signed with E88F5E48 and published on GitHub.

Sway is available in many distributions. Try installing the "sway" package for yours.

Check out this wiki page if you want to build the HEAD of sway and wlroots for testing or development.

Install dependencies:

• meson *
• wlroots
• wayland
• wayland-protocols *
• pcre2
• json-c
• pango
• cairo
• gdk-pixbuf2 (optional: additional image formats for system tray)
• swaybg (optional: wallpaper)
• scdoc (optional: man pages) *
• git (optional: version info) *

* Compile-time dep

Run these commands:

meson setup build/
ninja -C build/
sudo ninja -C build/ install

If you already use i3, then copy your i3 config to ~/.config/sway/config and it'll work out of the box. Otherwise, copy the sample configuration file to ~/.config/sway/config. It is usually located at /etc/sway/config. Run man 5 sway for information on the configuration.

Run sway from a TTY or from a display manager.