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I have no idea how to use SwayWM (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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I've been suggested to use a tiling window manager like Sway since it allows for controlling windows with hotkeys, but I'm having trouble getting started. I installed it in Fedora and tried logging back in with SwayFX (since it has features like blurring) but after I'm just shown a wallpaper with a top bar, the top left shows a 1 and the top right shows the time. I don't know what to do there. I tried looking up guides but didn't find anything, can you link me some if you know of any?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Forgot one thing: that top bar is also entirely configurable. It's called waybar, and you can find the docs here: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration

Pretty much everything in Sway is configurable, as most of it is just written in a config file. You can use different application launchers (fuzzel, for example), you can add a notification centre like swaync, or just customise waybar with whatever modules you want. I think you can even switch out waybar for something else, but I haven't tried that myself.