sway2k

Swaying Windows in Wayland 🎏🛣

sway2k in action

My personalized configs for sway window manager, minimalistic in design and optimized for CLI productivity.

✨ Features

• Optimized for the CLI
• Comes with integrations for foot, mako, waybar and more
• Minimalistic UI
• Optimized for AMOLED displays

Setup

⚡ Requirements

• sway: the window manager
• foot: waylan terminal emulator
• rofi: with rofi2k as launcher
• waybar: adds toolbar support
• mako: notification daemon
• grimshot: screenshot support
• wf-recorder: screen recorder support
• cliphist: for clipboard management
• wluma: adaptive brightness support
• wlsunset: sunset timing support
• light: for display brightness
• python: for scripts support
• qutebrowser: with qute2k as launcher
• nmtui: network manager cli
• bluetuith: bluetooth manager cli
• pulsemixer: audio manager cli
• bmenu: cli menu for utilities

# Arch
sudo pacman -S sway foot rofi waybar mako grimshot wf-recorder cliphist wluma wlsunset light python

# Debian
sudo apt install sway foot rofi waybar mako grimshot wf-recorder cliphist wluma wlsunset light python

# Fedora
sudo dnf install kvantum lxappearance kanshi calcurse

Themes

sway2k uses BWnB as gtk and Kvantum themes, for Firefox it uses Nightblue

Edit theme.conf to customize accordingly.

🚀 Installation

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/sway2k
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k" ~/.config/sway
# To setup foot separately
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k/foot" ~/.config/foot
# To setup waybar separately
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k/waybar" ~/.config/waybar

💻 Usage

Definitions

Default apps and definitions are in definitions.conf

• Default launcher: rofi, with rofi2k
• Default browser: qutebrowser, with qute2k
• Default camera: guvcview
• Default terminal: foot

Keybindings

You can find keybindings in the modes dir

Default keybindings are same as i3 keybindings

Mod is the Super key.

Shortcut	Action
Mod + Enter	Open Terminal
Mod + Shift + Enter / F12	Open Floating terminal
Esc	Close floatin terminal, exit modes
Mod + h/j/k/l	Switch focused window
Mod + left/right/0-9	Switch focused workspace
Mod + up/down	Resize focused workspace
Mod + Tab	Most recent workspace
Mod + Shift + h/j/k/l/arrows	Move focused window within workspace
Mod + Shift + 0-9	Move focused window to workspace
Mod + Alt + h/j/k/l/arrows	Move focused window between screens
Mod + Shift + m	Move focused window to empty workspace
Mod + n	Move to empty workspace
Mod + Shift + n	Move focused window away
Mod + Shift + c	Reload config
Mod + Shift + b	Toggle waybar
F11 / Mod + f	Full screen focused window
Mod + Shift + f	Toggle floating
Mod + Shift + w	Open default browser
Mod + Shift + p	Open default camera app
Mod + q	Close focused window
Alt + Tab	Most recent / urgent window
Alt + Shift + +/-	Zoom in / Zoom out
Mod + Space	Open app launcher
Mod + d	Open app launcher in empty workspace
Mod + a	Open app switcher
Mod + v	Open clipboard history
Mod + .	Open emoji panel

Resize Mode

Shortcut	Action
Mod + r	Open resize mode
h/j/k/l/arrows	Resize windows by 10px
Shift + h/j/k/l/arrows	Resize windows by 50px
+/Shift + = / -	Increase / Decrease gaps
Esc / Enter	Exit mode

Screenshot Mode

Shortcut	Action
Mod + Shift + p	Open screenshot mode
p	Select region to capture
o	Capture full screen
Shift + p / o	Capture with upload
Esc	Exit mode

Record Mode

Shortcut	Action
Mod + Shift + r	Open record mode
r	Start recording
Shift + r	Record with audio
Esc	Exit mode

Shutdown Mode

Shortcut	Action
Mod + Shift + q	Open shutdown mode
l	Lock
s	Shutdown
r	Reboot
u	Sleep
e	Logout
Esc	Exit mode

Waybar Modules

Comes with a bunch of customized waybar modules:

• menu: app launcher
• clock: with calendar integration
• weather: powered by wttr.in
• mode: sway modes
• wf-recorder: screen recorder integration
• pacman: package manager integration
• github: GitHub notifications with gh cli
• zeit: task tracker integration
• clipboard: powered by cliphist
• temperature: cpu temperatures with sensors
• cpu: cpu usage in percentage
• memory: shows used ram
• idle-inhibitor: controls idle screen turning off
• battery: shows battery usages and warnings
• sunset: location based gamma correction
• adaptive-light: brightness control powered by wluma
• backlight: brightness control
• playerctl: controls media playback
• pulseaudio: controls audio devices
• network: network connections powered by nmtui
• bluetooth: bluetooth adapter controls
• dnd: mako dnd integrations
• tray: system tray integration

Behind The Code

🌈 Inspiration

A spiritual successor to awesome2k.

I have been using awesome wm for a while and wanted to try out wayland, so I jumped in to sway!

💡 Challenges/Learnings

• Learned about wayland and sway APIs

🧰 Tooling

• dots2k — Dev Environment
• nvim2k — Personalized Editor

🔍 More Info

• awesome2k — Xorg based tiling wm configs

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