Sway
Sway is a Tiling Wayland Compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Wayland Support
- Tiling Window Manager
- Support for Multiple Monitors
- Tiling Layouts
- Tiling
Sway News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Sway
Sway 1.12 Wayland compositor adds HDR support on Vulkan, window capture, and new protocolsSway 1.12 is now available, marking the latest update to this tiling Wayland compositor. This relea...
- POX published news article about Sway
Sway 1.11 released with wlroots 0.19, new Wayland protocols, and explicit sync supportSway version 1.11 is now available, integrating all the core enhancements from wlroots 0.19.0. One ...
- POX published news article about Sway
Sway 1.10 released with GPU reset rcovery, enhanced performance, and much moreSway, an i3-compatible Wayland compositor, has released version 1.10, bringing a host of new featur...
Recent activities
- gva4n liked Sway
K0RR added Sway as alternative to Way Cooler
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What is Sway?
Sway is a Tiling Wayland Compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which maximizes the efficiency of your screen and can be quickly manipulated using only the keyboard.
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Comments and Reviews
It's great, simple and gets things done pretty straightforward. Used for almost two years with Fedora, ArcoLinux, and Arch Linux. Definitely a good choice.
AFAIK the only usable, good enough, with active development dynamic WM for wayland. nvidia users are doomed btw.
Best and only tiling window manager for Wayland