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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

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

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
• mauncher - Mauncher is a GTK-based alternative to dmenu for Wayland which supports display scaling.

• 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

• 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.
• 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

• 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
• brillo - controls the brightness of backlight and LED devices on Linux.
• wlr-brightness - adjust the brightness of your screen

• mako - A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland.
• fnott - Keyboard driven and lightweight Wayland notification daemon
• dunst - a highly configurable and lightweight notification daemon.
• wayherb - Wayland notifcation port of herbe - daemon-less notifications without D-Bus. Minimal and lightweight.

• workstyle - dynamically rename your workspaces to indicate which programs are running in each one.
• wsdnames.py - automatically renames workspace title

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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.
• 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

• wlclock - a digital analog clock for Wayland desktops.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• gtk-layer-shell - A library to write GTK applications that use Layer Shell.

• 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
• https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/wiki

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