Linux Sway

April 22nd, 2026

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https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki

i3 migration guide: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide

todo: feh for wallpaper - feh (wallpaper setting) → sway output configuration, see man 5 sway-output (or oguri sww, which supports animated wallpapers) unclutter (hiding cursor after some time) → seat <name> hide_cursor <timeout> xbanish (hiding cursor on keypress) → seat <name> hide_cursor when-typing enable xclip / xsel (clipboard copy/paste) → wl-clipboard, wlsnarf wl-clipboard-rs, wayclip xrandr → swaymsg output …, wlr-randr arandr (GUI to configure outputs) → wdisplays autorandr → kanshi