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