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Useful add-ons for sway
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Here is a list of apps and scripts for swaywm .
Note that pretty much all GTK and KDE apps such as firefox, thunderbird, chromium, even emacs (with the gtk-emacs branch) can be run as native wayland under sway so they're not listed here.
[WIP] = Work in progress or alpha status
Log-in managers
Launchers
Generic launchers for GTK or KDE such as xfce4-appfinder and krunner work fine but the following were written with sway in mind:
| lavalauncher | simple launcher for Wayland |
| sgtk-menu | app launcher |
| nwg-launchers | a set of launchers: application grid, dynamic menu, button bar |
| Ulauncher | app launcher |
| wldash | A dashboard/launcher/control-panel thing for Wayland |
| yofi | minimalistic application launcher for wayland |
| gmenu | Desktop application launcher |
| mauncher | Mauncher is a GTK-based alternative to dmenu for Wayland which supports display scaling. |
| fuzzel | application launcher, similar to rofi's drun mode |
Menus
| wofi | A rofi inspired menu and launcher for wlroots compositors |
| bemenu | dmenu replacement with Wayland support |
| wlogout | A wayland based logout menu wlogout |
| wayland fork of rofi | fork of Rofi with added support for Wayland |
| dmenu-wl | an efficient dynamic menu for wayland (wlroots). |
| sway-launcher-desktop | a TUI-based launcher menu made with bash and the amazing fzf |
Display/outputs
| wob | A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland. |
| mywob | autostarts wob(1) |
| wdisplays | GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors [like arandr(1)] |
| wlr-randr | manage outputs of a Wayland compositor. |
| wlay | Graphical output management for Wayland |
| kanshi | define output profiles that are automatically enabled and disabled on hotplug. eg, this can be used to turn a laptop's internal screen off when docked. |
| autotiling | switch the layout splith/splitv depending on the currently focused window dimensions. |
| persway | a simple sway ipc daemon |
| imv | imv is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers. |
Notification
workspaces
| workstyle | dynamically rename your workspaces to indicate which programs are running in each one. |
| wsdnames.py | automatically renames workspace title |
screenshot
| grim | grab images from a Wayland compositor |
| grimshot | script to grab screenshots |
| slurp | select a region in a Wayland compositor |
| swappy | screen snapshot & editor |
| swayshot | Print screen helper for sway adds keyboard shortcuts for screenshots |
| shotman | simple UI for handling screenshots. |
| taiga | an animated screenshot program |
brightness
| brightnessctl | control device brightness |
| light | control backlights |
| clight | a C user daemon utility that aims to fully manage your display |
| wluma | automatically adjusts screen brightness based on the screen contents and amount of ambient light around you |
| wluma-als-emulator | a fake ambient light sensor for those who don't get one built in their laptop |
| brillo | controls the brightness of backlight and LED devices on Linux. |
| wlr-brightness | adjust the brightness of your screen |
gamma
| wl-gammactl | Small GTK GUI application to set contrast, brightness and gamma |
| gammastep | Adjust the color temperature of your screen |
| wlsunset | Day/night gamma adjustments for Wayland |
Wallpaper
| swaybg | Wallpaper tool |
| azote | Wallpaper and colour manager for Sway, i3 and some other WMs |
| wallutils | wallpaper manager |
| glpaper | wallpaper program that allows you to render glsl shaders as your wallpaper |
| mpvpaper | wallpaper program that allows you to play videos with mpv as your wallpaper |
| qt-video-wlr | QT5 video player |
| oguri | A very nice animated wallpaper daemon |
Bars/panels
| swaybar | sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor. |
| i3status | Status bar generator for i3bar, dzen2, xmobar or similar programs |
| i3blocks | A feed generator for text based status bars (yes, it works fine with swaybar!) |
| waybar | Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway |
| yambar | is a lightweight and configurable status panel |
| gopsuinfo | prints system usage information as text for Waybar custom modules or icon/text for nwg-panel executors |
| i3status-rs | a feature-rich and resource-friendly replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust. It provides a way to display “blocks” of system information (time, battery status, volume, etc) on the i3 bar. It is also compatible with sway. |
| rootbar | a bar for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway and was designed to address the lack of good bars for wayland |
| nwg-panel | [WIP] a GTK-based panel, including best features from Waybar and tint2 |
| wapanel | Simple panel for Wayland with decent XFCE-like applets |
widgets
| wlclock | a digital analog clock for Wayland desktops. |
| wlr-sunclock | a desktop widget to show to the sun's shadows on earth. |
Keyboard/Input
| wev | event debugging similar to xev for X11 |
| wshowkeys | display keypresses |
| ydotool | Generic command-line automation tool (no X!) [like xdotool(1)] |
| myautotype | Hot-keys using ydotool possibly looking up a key-value pair from ~/.config/myautotype |
| wtype | xdotool type for wayland |
| clipman | A basic clipboard manager for Wayland, with support for persisting copy buffers after an application exits. |
| wl-clipboard | Wayland clipboard utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste, to copy data between the clipboard and Unix pipes, sockets, files etc |
| wl-clipboard-history | Wayland clipboard history tracker |
| swaykbdd | per-window keyboard layout for Sway |
| i3keys | lists all the keys that are bound to some action in i3 or sway |
| swaynagmode | programmatic control over swaynag, intended for use with keyboard bindings |
| sway-alttab | simple daemon that keeps track of your last focused window and switches to it on receiving a SIGUSR1. Automatically binds Alt-Tab to the same action. |
| wlrctl | command line utility for miscellaneous wlroots Wayland extensions (similar to xdotool). WARNING: requires sway-1.6+ |
| waynergy | [WIP] implementation of a synergy client for wlroots compositors |
Input Method Editors
| kime | [WIP] Korean IME |
| wlanthy | [WIP] simple Wayland-native Japanese input method. Born as a modification of wlhangul. |
| amthywl | [WIP] Japanese input method for sway |
| wlhangul | [WIP] A Hangul input method for Wayland. |
| wlpinyin | [WIP] experimental minimal wayland IME for Chinese |
| wlchewing | [WIP] Wayland Chinese zhuyin input method with libchewing |
Locking
| swayidle | An idle daemon for wayland compositors |
| swaylock | a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors |
| Waylock | a simple screenlocker for wayland compositors. |
| swaylock-effects | a fork of swaylock which adds built-in screenshots and image manipulation effects like blurring |
| mylock | configure swaylock for various use-cases - safe, at-home, movie modes plus auto downloading of images |
terminals
| Alacritty | A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator |
| foot | A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator |
| gnome-terminal | gnome's terminal |
| kitty | fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator |
| Konsole | KDE's Terminal Emulator |
| sakura | Simple but powerful libvte based terminal emulator |
| termite | A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support. |
| roxterm | terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library |
| wezterm | GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust |
Remote/recording
See also: Screencast-Compatibility
| wayvnc | VNC server for wlroots |
| wlvncc | Wayland VNC Client (WIP) |
| waypipe | waypipe is a proxy for Wayland[0] clients. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X [1] feasible. |
| wf-recorder | Screen recorder for wlroots-based compositors eg swaywm |
| obs-studio | capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, efficiently (see wlrobs) |
| wlrobs | obs-studio plugin that allows you to screen capture on wlroots based wayland compositors |
| obs-gnome-screencast | Small source plugin to use GNOME Screen Cast functionality as a source for OBS Studio |
| green-recorder | simple desktop recorder for Linux systems |
| txproto | A fully scriptable and flexible multimedia streaming/handling program. |
| wdomirror | wdomirror utilizes the wlroots dmabuf export protocol to create a mirror of an outout with as little overhead as possible |
Misc. Scripts
| sway-fit-floats | fits floating windows into workspace |
| sway-focus | focus an app by name (sway app_id or X11 class) |
| sway-prep-xwayland | prepare for Xwayland |
| sway-prop | show apps properties (similar to xprop) |
| sway-run-or-raise | focus an existing app or run it otherwise |
| sway-select-window | use bemenu/rofi/wofi to go to a running app |
| sway-start | startup sway from the console |
| sway-track-firefox | watch firefox (and other apps) and bind Shift-Ins to paste PRIMARY selection |
| sway-track-prev-focus | mark container with _prev for rapid switching between apps |
| nmcli-rofi | Wofi script to select wifi and VPNs with nmcli |
Development
| gtk-layer-shell | A library to write GTK applications that use Layer Shell. |
Sources
Contributing
If you have improvements, please post to r/swaywm
Criteria for inclusion (tentative):
- it's on one of the source lists
- it's mentioned on /r/swaywm
- it's open source ie unencumbered by a restricted licence
- it runs on linux
- it adds something to the sway experience
sway/sway-apps.txt · Last modified: 2021/02/28 02:50 by admin
