When setting up Sway as your Wayland compositor, you might want to organize your Waybar configuration in a non-standard location — for example, keeping a dedicated ~/.config/waybar/sway/ directory to separate your Sway-specific bar configuration from others. This seemingly simple task comes with a couple of subtle pitfalls worth knowing about. The ~ Expansion Problem The […]
If you use a Wayland compositor like Sway or Hyprland, mako is a great lightweight notification daemon. Many distros make it “start automatically” via a systemd user service, so you don’t need to add exec mako to your compositor config. I’m experimenting with a setup with KDE, Sway, and Hyprland installed on the same machine […]
If you use KDE and Sway (or Hyprland) on the same machine with the same user (something I’m experimenting with), when you launch Chrome and log in with your user in KDE, and then switch to Sway, you’ll see that your account is marked as “Paused”: you have to log in again. The same holds […]
Remembering every Sway shortcut is tough. I wrote a small script that parses your Sway config, displays all bindsym shortcuts in a clean, searchable list via Rofi, and executes the command associated with whichever one you select. It’s fast, keyboard-friendly, and great for discovery: “What did I bind to Mod + Shift + P again?” Now you […]
Let’s see what Eclipse looks like in Wayland in 2025. I report some screenshots of a few Wayland Window Managers and Desktop Environments. Sway Eclipse looks good in Sway: Hyprland The same can be said for Hyprland, especially now that the infamous bug has been solved: GNOME No problems on GNOME either; I’d expect that […]
Up to now, I have shown how to get started with Sway with the initial configurations and some other configurations. Now, I’ll show how to install another status bar in Sway: Waybar (which is more powerful than the default Sway bar). Again, I’m going to do that for Arch Linux. As in the previous posts, […]
Let’s continue the Sway window manager (in Arch Linux) series I started in my previous post and continued in the other post. Screenshots We can use “grimshot”, part of sway-contrib, to take screenshots, which requires the main program for performing the actual screenshot, “grim”.
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By default, such utilities are installed in “/usr/share/sway-contrib”, which is […]
Let’s continue the Sway window manager (in Arch Linux) series I started in my previous post. In this post, we deal with system notifications. (This post is similar to the corresponding one about Hyprland.) We use mako, a lightweight notification daemon for Wayland, one of the optional software suggested when we installed Sway. We also […]
I’m starting a new blog series about Sway, a Wayland Tiling Window Manager (the Wayland version of i3). Though I’ve already blogged about Sway, this post (and a few future ones) are intended as “getting started tutorials”. I’ll focus on Sway in Arch, in particular, EndeavourOS. Let’s start by installing EndeavourOS with no graphical environment […]
I’m using Sway (not as my daily driver) on different computers: PCs and laptops. For the PCs, I’m using an HDMI monitor. Laptops have different display sizes, e.g., small displays with low resolution and more extensive displays with retina resolution. Thus, I need to set different scaling factors for the different displays. It’s pretty easy […]
I started to look at the Window Manager Sway. Hopefully, in the future, I’ll post more articles on that. In the meantime, I looked at the Fedora Sway spin (the current version is 40) and will briefly comment on that in this post. The live environment already provides a Sway window manager and leaves documentation […]
Setting environment variables in Hyprland is easy: just put them in its config file. Setting environment variables in Sway is a bit harder, and there seems to be some confusion. The documentation is unclear about that, at least in my humble opinion. This blog post documents my way of setting environment variables in Sway. NOTE: […]