sway2k

Swaying Windows in Wayland 🎏🛣

sway2k in action

My personalized configs for sway window manager, minimalistic in design and optimized for CLI productivity.

✨ Features

• Optimized for the CLI
• Comes with integrations for foot, mako, waybar and more
• Minimalistic UI
• Optimized for AMOLED displays

Setup

⚡ Requirements

• sway: the window manager
• foot: waylan terminal emulator
• rofi: with rofi2k as launcher
• waybar: adds toolbar support
• mako: notification daemon
• grimshot: screenshot support
• wf-recorder: screen recorder support
• cliphist: for clipboard management
• wluma: adaptive brightness support
• wlsunset: sunset timing support
• light: for display brightness
• python: for scripts support
• qutebrowser: with qute2k as launcher
• nmtui: network manager cli
• bluetuith: bluetooth manager cli
• pulsemixer: audio manager cli
• bmenu: cli menu for utilities

# Arch
sudo pacman -S sway foot rofi waybar mako grimshot wf-recorder cliphist wluma wlsunset light python

# Debian
sudo apt install sway foot rofi waybar mako grimshot wf-recorder cliphist wluma wlsunset light python

# Fedora
sudo dnf install kvantum lxappearance kanshi calcurse

Themes

sway2k uses BWnB as gtk and Kvantum themes, for Firefox it uses Nightblue

Edit theme.conf to customize accordingly.

🚀 Installation

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/sway2k
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k" ~/.config/sway
# To setup foot separately
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k/foot" ~/.config/foot
# To setup waybar separately
ln -sfnv "$PWD/sway2k/waybar" ~/.config/waybar

💻 Usage

Definitions

Default apps and definitions are in definitions.conf

• Default launcher: rofi, with rofi2k
• Default browser: qutebrowser, with qute2k
• Default camera: guvcview
• Default terminal: foot

Keybindings

All the configured keybindings can be found in the keybinding manual here.

Waybar Modules

Comes with a bunch of customized waybar modules:

• menu: app launcher
• clock: with calendar integration
• weather: powered by wttr.in
• mode: sway modes
• wf-recorder: screen recorder integration
• pacman: package manager integration
• github: GitHub notifications with gh cli
• zeit: task tracker integration
• clipboard: powered by cliphist
• temperature: cpu temperatures with sensors
• cpu: cpu usage in percentage
• memory: shows used ram
• idle-inhibitor: controls idle screen turning off
• battery: shows battery usages and warnings
• sunset: location based gamma correction
• adaptive-light: brightness control powered by wluma
• backlight: brightness control
• playerctl: controls media playback
• pulseaudio: controls audio devices
• network: network connections powered by nmtui
• bluetooth: bluetooth adapter controls
• dnd: mako dnd integrations
• tray: system tray integration

Behind The Code

🌈 Inspiration

A spiritual successor to awesome2k.

I have been using awesome wm for a while and wanted to try out wayland, so I jumped in to sway!

💡 Challenges/Learnings

• Learned about wayland and sway APIs

🧰 Tooling

• dots2k — Dev Environment
• nvim2k — Personalized Editor

🔍 More Info

• awesome2k — Xorg based tiling wm configs

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