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