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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.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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Platforms

  • Linux
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

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

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Baianor
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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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AFAIK the only usable, good enough, with active development dynamic WM for wayland. nvidia users are doomed btw.

Rodney42
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Best and only tiling window manager for Wayland

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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.

Sway information

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    Sway

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3

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  • 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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