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Sway

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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.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Linux
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4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
19likes
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Wayland Support
  2.  Tiling Window Manager
  3.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  4.  Tiling Layouts
  5.  Tiling

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Top Positive Comment
Baianor
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•May 7, 2024
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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.

Lunatica
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•Nov 20, 2020
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AFAIK the only usable, good enough, with active development dynamic WM for wayland. nvidia users are doomed btw.

Rodney42
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•May 30, 2020
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Best and only tiling window manager for Wayland

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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  • Developed by

    US flagDrew DeVault

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3

  • Alternatives

    19 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Czech
    • Hindi
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Greek
    • Polish
    • Russian
    • Turkish
    • Chinese
    • Georgian
    • Persian
    • Japanese
    • Norwegian
    • Korean
    • Ukrainian
    • German
    • Hungarian

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  •  15,397 Stars
  •  1,149 Forks
  •  1196 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 15, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Sway, and it has gotten 19 likes

Sway was added to AlternativeTo by Siphons on Oct 31, 2016 and this page was last updated Jan 9, 2025.