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Sway-WM Setup and Theme for EndeavourOS

Sway EndeavourOS Community Edition

To Install Sway

With the EOS Installer

1. In the live environment, choose "Fetch your install customization file" from the Welcome app.
2. Type or paste the URL for the Sway user_commands.bash file.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/sway/main/setup_sway_isomode.bash

3. Click OK , then back in the Welcome app click Start the Installer and proceed with an online installation. Be sure to choose "no desktop" on the DE selection screen.

Manually (Post-Installation)

Alternatively, you can add Sway after the installation is complete by cloning the repo and running the sway-install.sh script.

git clone https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/sway.git

cd sway

sudo ./sway-install.sh

Post install

• Keyboard layout in: ~/.config/sway/config.d/input

• Screen settings in: ~/.config/sway/config.d/output

• Keybindings Cheatsheet: press keyboard icon in waybar

• If your experiencing issues with your cursor - edit file /etc/greetd/regreet.toml and uncomment WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS = "1"

Get involved at our forum:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/sway-edition-general-conversation

Tutorial for sway-wm settings:

• Background handled by swaybg
• Filebrowser = Thunar
• Default Terminal-Emulator = Foot
• Text-Editor = xed/nano
• Bar = Waybar
• Sound = Pulseaudio

Main shortcuts: ~/.config/sway/cheatsheet

MOD key is set to the WINKEY/LINKEY

• MOD+Return = open floating terminal (Foot)
• MOD+O = open Browser (firefox)
• MOD+N = open File Manager (thunar)
• MOD+D= app menu (Fuzzel)
• MOD+Q = close focused app [kill]
• Shift+PrtSc = screenshot/bring up screenshot menu
• MOD+SHIFT+E = power-menu
• MOD+R = resize mode
• MOD+SHIFT+SPACE = float window
  • MOD+HOLD DOWN = drag floating window
• MOD+↑ ↓ → ← = switch focus respectively
• MOD+SHIFT+MINUS = send to scratchpad
• MOD+MINUS = cycle through scratchpad

Tiling:

Is set to default for swaywm and can be changed to:

• stacking: Only the focused window in the container is displayed. You get a list of windows at the top of the container.
  • MOD+S = Vertical List
  • MOD+W = Horizontal List
    • navigate lists with MOD+↑ ↓ → ←
  • MOD+E = Back to tiling

Fuzzel:

Waybar: