# sway **[English][en]** - [日本語][ja] - [Français][fr] - [Українська][uk] - [Español][es] - [Polski][pl] - [中文-简体][zh-CN] - [Deutsch][de] - [Nederlands][nl] - [Русский][ru] - [中文-繁體][zh-TW] - [Português][pt] - [Danish][dk] - [한국어][ko] - [Română][ro] - [Magyar][hu] - [Türkçe][tr] sway is an [i3]-compatible [Wayland] compositor. Read the [FAQ]. Join the [IRC channel] \(#sway on irc.freenode.net). ## Release Signatures Releases are signed with [E88F5E48] and published [on GitHub][GitHub releases]. ## Installation ### From Packages Sway is available in many distributions. Try installing the "sway" package for yours. If you're interested in packaging sway for your distribution, stop by the IRC channel or shoot an email to sir@cmpwn.com for advice. ### Compiling from Source Check out [this wiki page][Development setup] if you want to build the HEAD of sway and wlroots for testing or development. Install dependencies: * meson \* * [wlroots] * wayland * wayland-protocols \* * pcre * json-c * pango * cairo * gdk-pixbuf2 (optional: system tray) * [scdoc] (optional: man pages) \* * git (optional: version info) \* _\*Compile-time dep_ Run these commands: meson build/ ninja -C build/ sudo ninja -C build/ install On systems without logind, you need to suid the sway binary: sudo chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/sway Sway will drop root permissions shortly after startup. ## Configuration If you already use i3, then copy your i3 config to `~/.config/sway/config` and it'll work out of the box. Otherwise, copy the sample configuration file to `~/.config/sway/config`. It is usually located at `/etc/sway/config`. Run `man 5 sway` for information on the configuration. ## Running Run `sway` from a TTY. Some display managers may work but are not supported by sway (gdm is known to work fairly well). [en]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway#readme [ja]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.ja.md [fr]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.fr.md [uk]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.uk.md [es]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.es.md [pl]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.pl.md [zh-CN]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.zh-CN.md [de]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.de.md [nl]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.nl.md [ru]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.ru.md [zh-TW]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.zh-TW.md [pt]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.pt.md [dk]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.dk.md [ko]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.ko.md [ro]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.ro.md [hu]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.hu.md [tr]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/README.tr.md [i3]: https://i3wm.org/ [Wayland]: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ [FAQ]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki [IRC channel]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4 [E88F5E48]: https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=34FF9526CFEF0E97A340E2E40FDE7BE0E88F5E48 [GitHub releases]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases [Development setup]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Development-Setup [wlroots]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots [scdoc]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc