Sway-WM Setup and Theme for EndeavourOS

Sway EndeavourOS Community Edition

To Install Sway

With the EOS Installer

1. In the live environment, choose "Fetch your install customization file" from the Welcome app.
2. Type or paste the URL for the Sway user_commands.bash file.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/sway/main/setup_sway_isomode.bash

3. Click OK , then back in the Welcome app click Start the Installer and proceed with an online installation. Be sure to choose "no desktop" on the DE selection screen.

Manually (Post-Installation)

Alternatively, you can add Sway after the installation is complete by cloning the repo and running the sway-install.sh script.

git clone https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/sway.git

cd sway

sudo ./sway-install.sh

Post install

• Keyboard layout in: ~/.config/sway/config.d/input

• Screen settings in: ~/.config/sway/config.d/output

• Keybindings Cheatsheet: press keyboard icon in waybar

• If you are experiencing issues with your cursor, edit /etc/greetd/regreet.toml and uncomment WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS = "1"

Get involved at our forum:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/sway-edition-general-conversation

Tutorial for sway-wm settings:

• Background handled by Azote
• Filebrowser = Thunar
• Default Terminal-Emulator = Foot
• Text-Editor = xed/nano
• Bar = Waybar
• Sound = Pulseaudio

Keyboard shortcuts:

Click the keyboard icon in the Waybar to launch the keybinding cheatsheet.

Tiling:

Windows are set to tile by default in Sway. This can be changed to stacking, where only the focused window in the container is displayed. You get a "list" of windows at the top of the container. Navigate between the lists with Mod+↑ ↓ → ←

• Mod+S = Stack with a vertical list
• Mod+W = Stack with a horizontal list (like browser tabs)
• Mod+E = Revert back to tiling

The autotiling script (https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling) has been installed and enabled by default. The orientation of window splits is handled automatically, based on the focused window's aspect ratio. The script also allows being overridden by manually defining the next split with Mod+V (vertical split) or Mod+B (horizontal split).

If you prefer the traditional splitting behavior of i3 (where changing the split orientation needs to be done manually every time), comment out the exec autotiling line in ~/.config/sway/config.d/autostart_applications.

Screenshots:

Fuzzel:

Waybar: