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Useful add-ons for sway

Here is a list of apps and scripts for swaywm .

Assuming it sticks, the canonical page for this is here

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.

Log-in managers

greetd	a minimal and flexible login manager daemon
emptty	Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY
Ly	a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

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	app launcher
Ulauncher	app launcher
wldash	A dashboard/launcher/control-panel thing for Wayland
yofi	minimalistic application launcher for wayland
gmenu	Desktop application launcher

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
fuzzel	application launcher, similar to rofi's drun mode

Display/outputs

wlr-sunclock	sunclock for the root window
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.
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

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\u2019t get one built into in their laptop
brillo	controls the brightness of backlight and LED devices on Linux.

Notification

mako	A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland.
fnott	Keyboard driven and lightweight Wayland notification daemon

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
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.

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	play movies on the wallpaper/root
qt-video-wlr	play movies

Bars

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 in a single line, for use with text-based panels like Waybar or polybar
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.

Keyboard/Input

wev	event debugging similar to xev for X11
wshowkeys	display keypresses
ydotool	Generic command-line automation tool (no X!) [like xdotool(1)]
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+

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

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

Remote/recording

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
myautotype	Hot-keys using ydotool possibly looking up a key-value pair from ~/.config/myautotype
nmcli-rofi	Wofi script to select wifi and VPNs with nmcli

Sources

https://reddit.com/swaywm

https://arewewaylandyet.com/

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide

https://github.com/ammgws/letssway

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sway

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

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

Bob's wiki

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