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    Sway

    Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.

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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.

    We also maintain the wlroots project to provide a modular basis for Sway and other Wayland compositors to build upon, and we publish standards for interoperable Wayland desktops.
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    Lunatica
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    • Top positive comment  over 1 year ago • 0 replies
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    AFAIK the only usable, good enough, with active development dynamic WM for wayland. nvidia users are doomed btw.

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    Rodney42
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    • Top positive comment  almost 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    Best and only tiling window manager for Wayland

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    • window-tiling

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    Summary

    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Sway, and it has gotten 12 likes

    • Developed by Drew DeVault
    • Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
    • Written in 
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    • Average rating of 4
    • 38 alternatives listed

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    •  10,533 Stars
    •  892 Forks
    •  675 Open Issues
    •   Updated May 11, 2022
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    Sway was added to AlternativeTo by siphons on Oct 31, 2016 and this page was last updated Nov 24, 2020.

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