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 | 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 |
term-dmenu | Replace dmenu with a floating terminal and FZF |
sirula | Simple app launcher for Wayland written in Rust |
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)] (Mirror since the [upstream](https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays) has been deleted) |
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 |
Image viewers
Video Players
mpv | Command line video player |
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 |
sunpaper | a linux utility to change wallpaper based on local sunrise and sunset times. |
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 |
nwg-panel | GTK-based panel, inspired by Waybar and tint2 |
wapanel | Simple panel for Wayland with decent XFCE-like applets |
luastatus | Universal status bar content generator |
sfwbar | Sway Floating Window Bar is a taskbar for Sway, focused on a stacking layout workflow |
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 |
Ate | Awesome terminal emulator |
Germinal | Minimalist vte-based terminal emulator |
Havoc | A minimal terminal emulator for Wayland |
wterm | An st fork for wayland |
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 |
ssr-wlroots | A version of SimpleScreenRecorder with support for wlroots-based compositors (more specifically, those that support wlr-screencopy-v1 and xdg-output). Doesn't support recording area selection and has issues with multiple screens. |
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. |
client toolkit | A toolkit for writing Wayland clients in Rust |
swc | A library for making a simple Wayland compositor |
wlroots | Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor |
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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