Installing Sway
What is Sway?
Sway is a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland, inspired by i3 and written in C.
Sway is designed as a direct replacement for i3, using the more modern Wayland display server protocol and the wlroots compositor library.
Sway works with existing i3 configuration files and is compatible with most of i3's features while providing several new features of its own.
The default controls in Sway for manipulating windows are similar to vi.
The focus on the window is controlled by a combination of the [Super] key and one of the keys H, J, K, or L.
Window movement is performed using the same key combination with the addition of the [Shift] key.
Like i3, Sway can be extended and manipulated through its Unix domain socket and JSON-based IPC interface from many programming languages.
The first stable release of Sway was on March 11, 2019, after 3.6 years of development.
Installation
$ sudo apt install sway
Further Reading
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