# sway [](https://travis-ci.org/SirCmpwn/sway) [](https://drewdevault.com/donate?project=4) "**S**irCmpwn's **Way**land window manager" is a **work in progress** i3-compatible window manager for [Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/). Read the [FAQ](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/wiki). Join the [IRC channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4) (#sway on irc.freenode.net).  ## Rationale I use i3 on xorg. Wayland is coming, and [i3way](http://i3way.org/) still has zero lines of source code after two years. ## Status [See "i3 feature support"](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/issues/2) ## Installation ### From Packages sway is not supported by many distributions yet. Here's a list of packages available for you to install: * [Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-git/) * [Gentoo Linux](https://github.com/zetok/zetok-overlay/) * [openSUSE](https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:Wayland) For other distros, [see this wiki page](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/wiki/Install-on-other-distros). ### Compiling from Source Install dependencies: * cmake * [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc) * wayland * xwayland * asciidoc * pcre * json-c * pango * cairo * gdk-pixbuf2 Run these commands: mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install On systems without logind, you need to suid the sway binary: sudo chmod a+s /usr/bin/sway ## 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 located at `/etc/sway/config`, unless the `DFALLBACK_CONFIG_DIR` flag has been set. Run `man 5 sway` for information on the configuration. ## Running Instead of running `startx`, run `sway`. You can run `sway` from within X as well, which is useful for testing.