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- sway (1)
- ========
- Name
- ----
- sway - SirCmpwn's Wayland window manager
- Synopsis
- --------
- 'sway' [options] [command]
- Options
- -------
- *-c, \--config* <config>::
- Specifies a config file.
- *-C, \--validate*::
- Check the validity of the config file, then exit.
- *-d, --debug*::
- Enables full logging, including debug information.
- *-v, \--version*::
- Show the version number and quit.
- *-V, --verbose*::
- Enables more verbose logging.
- *--get-socketpath*::
- Gets the IPC socket path and prints it, then exits.
- Description
- -----------
- sway was created to fill the need of an i3-like window manager for Wayland. The
- upstream i3 developers have no intention of porting i3 to Wayland, and projects
- proposed by others ended up as vaporware. Many thanks to the i3 folks for
- providing such a great piece of software, so good that your users would rather
- write an entirely new window manager from scratch that behaved _exactly_ like i3
- rather than switch to something else.
- You may run sway from an ongoing x11 session to run it within x. Otherwise, you
- can run sway on a tty and it will use your outputs directly.
- *Important note for nvidia users*: The proprietary nvidia driver does _not_ have
- support for Wayland as of 2015-08-17. Use nouveau.
- Commands
- --------
- If sway is currently running, you may run _sway [command]_ to send _command_ to
- the running instance of sway. The same commands you would use in the config file
- are valid here (see **sway**(5)). For compatability reasons, you may also issue
- commands with **sway-msg**(1) or **i3-msg**(1) (or even with **i3**(1), probably).
- Configuration
- -------------
- If _-c_ is not specified, sway will look in several locations for your config
- file. The default one is provided at /etc/sway/config. The suggested location for
- your config file is ~/.config/sway/config. ~/.sway/config will also work, and the
- rest of the usual XDG config locations are supported. If no sway config is found,
- sway will attempt to load an i3 config from all the config locations i3 supports.
- If still nothing is found, you will receive an error.
- For information on the config file format, see **sway**(5).
- Authors
- -------
- Maintained by Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>, who is assisted by other open
- source contributors. For more information about sway development, see
- <https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway>.
- See Also
- --------
- **sway**(5)
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