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# sway [](https://travis-ci.org/SirCmpwn/sway) [](https://drewdevault.com/donate?project=4)
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"**S**irCmpwn's **Way**land window manager" is a **work in progress**
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i3-compatible window manager for [Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/).
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Read the [FAQ](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/wiki).
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## Rationale
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I use i3 on xorg. Wayland is coming, and [i3way](http://i3way.org/) still has
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zero lines of source code after two years.
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## Status
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[See "i3 feature support"](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2)
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## Installation
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### From Packages
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sway is not supported by many distributions yet. Here's a list of packages
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available for you to install:
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* [Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-git/)
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* [Gentoo Linux](https://github.com/zetok/zetok-overlay/)
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* [openSUSE](https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:Wayland)
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### Compiling from Source
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Install dependencies:
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* cmake
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* [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc)
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* xwayland
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* asciidoc
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* pcre
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* json-c
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Run these commands:
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cmake .
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make
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sudo make install
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## Configuration
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If you already use i3, then copy your i3 config to `~/.config/sway/config` and
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it'll work out of the box. Otherwise, copy `/etc/sway/config` to
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`~/.config/sway/config`. Run `man 5 sway` for information on the configuration.
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## Running
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Run this from a tty (instead of starting x):
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sway
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If you run it from within x, it will spawn x windows instead of using your
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hardware directly (useful for development).
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