sway2k

Swaying Windows in Wayland 🎏🛣

sway2k in action

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

✨ Features

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

Setup

⚡ Requirements

Packages

All the mentioned packages may not be available in your package manager, you might have to install them manually.

• sway: the window manager
• foot: wayland terminal emulator
• waybar: adds toolbar support
• rofi: app launcher
• qutebrowser: keyboard driven browser
• mako: notification daemon
• grim: screenshot support
• swappy: for screenshot editing
• slurp: for screenshot area selection
• 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
• nmtui: network manager
• bluetuith: bluetooth manager
• pulsemixer: audio manager
• calcurse: calendar
• notify-send.sh: notify-send alternative for notifications
• kvantum/lxappearance/themix: qt / gtk theme manager - themix can be removed after BWnB gtk theme export
  • BWnb as the theme for qt and gtk
  • Note: You have to manually install BWnB using Kvantum Manager, or it will always open the manager after restart
• btop: system monitor
• FiraCode Nerd Font

# Arch
sudo pacman -S sway foot rofi waybar mako calcurse grim jq pulsemixer wf-recorder cliphist wluma wlsunset light swappy python \
xdg-user-dirs kvantum lxappearance ttf-firacode-nerd qutebrowser btop
yay notify-send.sh themix-full-git

# Debian
sudo apt install sway foot rofi waybar mako grim calcurse jq pulsemixer wf-recorder cliphist wluma wlsunset light notify-send.sh swappy python

# Fedora
sudo dnf install kvantum lxappearance kanshi calcurse

Recommended Configurations

Highly recommended to use this alongside the following configurations:

• rofi2k as rofi config
• qute2k as quetbrowser config
• dots2k CLI Dev Environment
• nvim2k Personalized Editor

🚀 Installation

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/sway2k
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k" ~/.config/sway

💻 Usage

Keybindings

All the configured keybindings can be found in the keybinding manual here.

Customization

• Customize colors, icons, fonts, and more in theme.conf.
• Customize Default apps and other definitions in definitions.conf

Waybar Modules

Comes with a bunch of customized waybar modules

• menu: app launcher
• clock: with calendar integration
• 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

These modules share their behaviour with tmux2k plugins

• weather: powered by wttr.in
• ping: shows ping status of a server
• gpu: shows GPU usage
• uptime: shows system uptime

If you want to use the waybar config by itself, you can do so by running:

# To setup waybar separately
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k/waybar" ~/.config/waybar

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

🔍 More Info

• awesome2k — Xorg based tiling wm configs

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