sway-gnome

Allows you to use Sway, a tiling window manager, with GNOME 3 Session infrastructure on Linux distributions which have GNOME >= 3.34.

Work in progress

This repository is currently work-in-progress. Right now, the Sway session is started by GDM, modelled after sway's systemd integration wiki page.

Some further unit files are included to launch as many GNOME deamons in the background as possible in a non-gnome-shell wayland session. Not all daemons are enabled and further work is necessary for full-compatibility!

What this enables

• Keybindings for controlling brightness, Play/Pause, Next/Previous Track, Mute, Volume Up/Down. You can customize sway/config.d/gnome after installation
• Desktop integration for Flatpak and Snap
• Idle management / Screen Lock
• Automatic screen adjustment at sunrise / sunset
• Privilege management
• Keyring integration
• Dynamic display configuration
• Accessibility Settings
• Color Management Settings
• Date & Time Settings
• Keyboard Settings
• Power Management Settings
• Printer Notifications
• Enabling and Disabling Wireless Devidces (rfkill)
• Screensaver Settings
• Handle Sharing music, pictures and videos on the local network
• Remote Login settings
• Smartcard handling
• Sound settings
• Wacom tablet handling
• WWAN handling for modems / SIM Cards
• Display Server settings

Usage

You may install the system files via sudo make install and then copy the contents of systemd/user to $HOME/.config/systemd/user and adjust them for your personal needs.

In your login manager Sway (systemd) should be startable as a new session.

Dependencies

You need to manually install these dependencies first:

• brightnessctl - support keybindings for screen brightness control
• network-manager-gnome - Network Manager control applet
• pulseaudio-utils - support keybindings for volume control
• playerctl - support binding media keys
• xdg-desktop-portal - desktop integration for Flatpak and Snap
• swayidle - for idle management
• swaylock - for screen lock
• redshift - for automatic screen dimming
• policykit-1-gnome - privilege management
• mako - lightweight Wayland
• kanshi - Dynamic display configuration for Wayland
• gnome-keyring - manage SSH keys, PKCS11 and other secrets
• gnome-session-bin - the gnome session binary itself
• gnome-settings-daemon-common - provides GNOME settings services.

Installation

While this project can be installed with a simple sudo make install after fetching the Git repo, more effort may be required to install the dependencies, especially if they aren't packaged for your Linux distribution. Distro-specific extensions are maintained on the wiki.

• Installing on Ubuntu 19.10

Related Projects

• sway-services provides a minimal sway / systemd integration with no GNOME services