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sway version 1.6.1
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Sway is a tiling window manager and Wayland compositor, inspired by i3, and
written in C. Sway is designed as a drop-in replacement for i3 using the more
modern Wayland display server protocol and wlroots compositor library. Sway
works with existing i3 configuration files and supports most of i3's features
while providing several new features of its own. [0]
Upstream: https://swaywm.org/
[000] Index
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* Installation ........................................................... [001]
* Setup .................................................................. [002]
* Add User To Input Video And TTY Groups ............................... [003]
* Setup Seat Management ................................................ [004]
* Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR .................................................. [005]
* Usage .................................................................. [006]
* Troubleshooting ........................................................ [007]
* History ................................................................ [008]
* References ............................................................. [009]
[001] Installation
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There are three flavors of Sway in the repositories.
1. 'sway': Sway as upstream intended. Comes with all the bells and whistles
and requires use of the seatd daemon.
2. 'sway-no-seat': Sway without the seatd daemon requirement. Instead, the
libseat library embeds the daemon.
3. 'sway-tiny': All changes from 'sway-no-seat' plus no dependency on pcre,
json-c, pango and cairo.
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| $ kiss b [sway|sway-no-seat|sway-tiny] |
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If the system has no fonts, installation of a font is also required.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| $ kiss b ttf-croscore |
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[002] Setup
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--[003] Add User To Input Video And TTY Groups ---------------------------------
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| $ addgroup USER input |
| $ addgroup USER video |
| $ addgroup USER tty |
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
--[004] Setup Seat Management --------------------------------------------------
If using the 'sway package, the seatd daemon must be setup. Refer to the
documentation found here @/libseat
If using the 'sway-no-seat' or 'sway-tiny' packages, there is no seatd daemon
requirement. Instead you must be the first to call DRMSetMaster. [1]
--[005] Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ----------------------------------------------------
This environment variable must be set to a directory that is writable by your
user. This can be anywhere in theory though /run/user/$(id -u) is recommended.
[006] Usage
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No documentation is currently provided with the package, refer to online
documentation for the time being.
[007] Troubleshooting
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If you are using the 'sway-tiny' package and encounter any issues, send bug
reports to $/kisslinux/repo rather than upstream.
[008] History
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2021-11-05 ae052cac sway: Fix #356
2021-10-02 b4901ca1 sway: fix errors with llvm 13. See #343
2021-07-18 efbe6b89 sway: potential fix for media keys
2021-07-15 4f967a25 sway: update for new env
2021-07-15 7e0b76af sway: use VERSION
2021-07-13 b072beae sway: Add missing mesa dependency
2021-07-12 28846304 sway: keep manual pages. See #273
2021-07-10 721c26f3 sway: fix trailing whitespace
2021-07-09 55b63237 sway: make default background color modifiable at compile-time
2021-07-09 d59b529e sway: remove libevdev dependency
2021-07-08 79586007 sway: add note to post-install
2021-07-08 2679e218 sway: fix depends
2021-07-08 1f942f7c sway: fix depends
2021-07-08 afff9c0e sway: update post-install
2021-07-08 afed184e sway: fix depends
2021-07-08 fc9dad39 sway: 1.6.1
[009] References
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sway_(window_manager)
[1] $/torvalds/linux/commit/45bc3d26c95a8fc63a7d8668ca9e57ef0883351c
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Dylan Araps (C) 2019-2021
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