sway:sway-apps
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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 - 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.
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.
- 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
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.
- wlr-brightness - adjust the brightness of your screen
Notification
- 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.
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
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 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
widgets
- wlclock - a digital analog clock for Wayland desktops.
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
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
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