Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
Questions tagged [swaywm]
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SwayWM: How to create a tabbed container with the mouse?
In SwayWM it's possible to hold mod and drag windows to rearrange them. By default it seems when dragging a window onto the center of another window the positions are swapped.
Instead of that I would like to be able to drag a window onto another to…
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How do I get xkb settings to work via xwayland? They work fine when used on Wayland-native applications
My custom keyboard mapping only works through xdg_shell applications, not through xwayland. I have configured Sway to show in the title bar what's running via xwayland and what's not, using for_window [tiling] title_format "%title — $shell".
My…
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How do I stack windows in a container positioned in the right/bottom part of a workspace?
I want to be able to organise my windows as follows:
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| term |===========|
| | editor |
| | |
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where I try to illustrate stacked windows by the equal signs in the upper part…
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X11 equivalents of grim, slurp, and wl-copy
I have been using Sway on Wayland for the last couple of years, but am currently stuck on X11/i3 due to various reasons...
The configs are compatible for the most part, but I am having trouble getting screenshots to work.
What is the easiest way I…
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What is the equivalent of `--class` in Konsole?
I'm using Wayland + SwayWM. Inside of Sway, I'm using the Konsole terminal. From time to time I would want to open another terminal window in the "launcher" fashion, as in some Sway-compatible launchers such as sway-launcher-desktop.
To make that…
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How to launch terminal based programs from a program launcher?
When I'm trying to launch a terminal based software (lf or neovim for example) using rofi/wofi or any other launcher, nothing happens.
I'm using Sway as a window manager.
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Qt5 on Wayland - how to set keyboard repeat rate?
I'm running SwayWM. I set the keyboard repeat delay and rate in ~/.config/sway/config as:
input * repeat_delay 180
input * repeat_rate 50
This works in everything except Qt5 applications. Qt5 applications use their own repeat delay and rate, and it…
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