sway:sway-apps
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Useful add-ons for sway
Assuming it sticks, the canonical page for this is here Here is a list of apps and scripts for swaywm .
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
| 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 |
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\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 |
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](https://github
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