I have no idea how to use SwayWM

[hobbes_dent@lemmy.world]

Check out any results for i3 wm use, they’re quite interchangeable.

Second advice is to check config examples and change or identify your meta key (I think default is ctrl, but I like alt).

Within the config file you can see many key combos for using Sway, but if you find new terminal, launcher, and workspace navigation (that’s your 1) you should be off to the races.

I think the above would be shift-meta-return, meta-D, and shift-meta-1,2 (to move a window to a workspace) and meta-1,2,3 (to go to a workspace). But I’m just on my phone and my memory gets mixed up because I have more memory from scrotwm/spectrwm and I might be mixing things up.

[winety@lemmy.zip]

To open an app launcher press Win+D, then type the name of a program you want to launch and press enter. Boom, you're using Sway. Here are the default key bindings: https://wiki.garudalinux.org/en/sway-cheatsheet

[snaggen@programming.dev]

For a more user friendly tiling desktop environment, you should have a look at COSMIC. It is still im alpha, but I use it as a daily driver...

[morphit@feddit.uk]

I think this wiki cheetsheet will explain some of the defaults. Pretty much everything is controlled with a keybind using the meta/super (windows) key. Mod + d should open the launcher, I only used dmenu but yours might be something else. The launcher will let you launch applications by name. If you just want a terminal, Mod + Enter will open one.

You will want to look at your config. It should live in ~/.config/sway/config. If it's not there then mkdir ~/.config/sway/ && cp /etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway/. That should list the keybinds you have set. You can look up the options in the man page for sway.

Once you can do some basic window control, you might want to customise the status bar. The config should tell you what bar is being used, but there are a huge array of statusbars to choose from - I used i3status-rust but try searching for i3/sway statusbars to see what's out there.

[thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org]

Check out cosmic

[nmtake@lemm.ee]

As already suggested, take a look at i3 Window Manager's docs: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html because Sway (works on Wayland) is a port of i3 (works on X11).

[muhyb@programming.dev]

This is the way. It may have a steep learning curve but the i3 docs cover everything you may need. There will be some different counterparts on Wayland though.

[krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org]

The sway man pages are really helpful. I prefer waybar and bemenu to round out my core environment tools.

[enemenemu@lemm.ee]

It looks really good but I wonder if it is as efficient as niri or paperwm https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-tiling-redesign-and-libcosmic-rebasing

[justanotherkay@lemmy.world]

You're learning a new workflow, it's gonna take a second. Don't get discouraged, you're just fighting habits from your old work flow, it'll be buttery smooth once you've built new habits.

That out of the way, you need to learn your hotkeys. Ctrl+enter is gonna get you into a terminal by default, from there you want to get into your configs (check out /etc if it's not in .config yet) to find your Sway config. That little dude is your best friend now, it's your Options window from a desktop environment. I haven't double checked your account, but I assume you're the tiling/floating poster from the other day? In which case I would suggest doing some research into class and appid filters within the config, this is how you're going to define windows to automatically float AFAIK

[tankplanker@lemmy.world]

If you are the person asking the floating window question from the other day as JustAnotherKay spotted, then this is how I set a window to floating in my config;

for_window [title="www.youtube.com" app_id="firefox"] floating enable, resize set 1280 720 , opacity 1

What this is doing is selecting any firefox app that has www.youtube.com anywhere in the title and make that floating, with a set size, and remove any opacity (transparency) that might be applied to the window.

You can add move absolute position 0 0 on the end if you want to set the absolute location for the window.

You can force a window to a particular workspace by:

assign [class="discord"] workspace number $ws2

and that workspace to a particular monitor with:

workspace $ws2 output DP-1

If I wanted to do this for all firefox windows I would just remove the title= part from the selection.

How do you get the titles and other components? Using swaymsg as follows:

swaymsg -t get_tree

this will output all your open windows per monitor, for each app you want to manage you are looking for something like:

#15: con "#tech-talk🖥 | 40% Keyboards - Discord" (xdg_shell, pid: 6260, app_id: "discord")

from here you its simple to pick up what you can use for a unique select, so app_id:="discord" in this case.

If you reload your config file, then reopen the app, it should reflect the changes you made to the config file. Logging on and off in the worst case will restart it.

[wuphysics87@lemmy.ml]

See if you can nab someone's dotfiles