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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). Join the
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[IRC channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4) (#sway on
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irc.freenode.net).
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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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For other distros, [see this wiki page](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/wiki/Install-on-other-distros).
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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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* wayland
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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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* pango
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* cairo
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* gdk-pixbuf2
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Run these commands:
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mkdir build
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cd build
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cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
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make
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sudo make install
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On systems without logind, you need to suid the sway binary:
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sudo chmod a+s /usr/bin/sway
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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 the sample configuration file to
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`~/.config/sway/config`. It is located at `/etc/sway/config`, unless the
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`DFALLBACK_CONFIG_DIR` flag has been set. Run `man 5 sway` for information on
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the configuration.
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## Running
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Instead of running `startx`, run `sway`. You can run `sway` from within X as
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well, which is useful for testing.
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