# 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).  ## 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) ### Compiling from Source Install dependencies: * cmake * [wlc](https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc) * wayland * xwayland * asciidoc * pcre * json-c * pango * cairo Run these commands: cmake . make sudo make install ## 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 `/etc/sway/config` to `~/.config/sway/config`. Run `man 5 sway` for information on the configuration. ## Running Run this from a tty (instead of starting x): sway If you run it from within x, it will spawn x windows instead of using your hardware directly (useful for development).