Personal fork, not upstream sway

This is my own fork of swaywm/sway, branched from sway 1.11. It adds one feature, lock_visible_namespace, which keeps allowlisted layer surfaces (waybar, in my case) drawn above the session lock screen instead of being hidden by it.

The patches live on the lock-visible-namespace branch, which is the default branch here. Nothing in this fork is packaged, supported, or submitted upstream, and I rebase it whenever I feel like it. If you want sway itself, go to swaywm/sway.

Upstream's README follows.

sway

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

Release Signatures

Releases are signed with E88F5E48 and published on GitHub.

Installation

From Packages

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

Compiling from Source

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 build/
ninja -C build/
sudo ninja -C build/ 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 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.

Running

Run sway from a TTY. Some display managers may work but are not supported by sway (gdm is known to work fairly well).