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# Sway-Config
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My current SwayWM Setup for Arch Linux. It uses bash Skripts and systemd-utilities. If you want to use it without them, help me improve it.
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### Includes:
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- customizable scripts for menu, screenshots, gammastep and other functions
- many bindsyms ([neo2](https://www.neo-layout.org/) keyboard layout)
- already set up to support xwayland and wine (for wine also see [this issue ](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Mouse_not_working_in_WINE_applications ))
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### Setting up
- install dependencies
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- Place the files in .config in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
- make shell-scripts executable ```chmod u+x .config/sway/*.sh```
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- edit the .config/sway/gammastep.ini to your timezone
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- edit the Output and Input Configuration in .config/sway/config, if neccessary
- set Environment
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- start sway
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- further information can be found in the [sway wiki ](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Running-programs-natively-under-wayland )
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### Dependencies:
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- [alacritty ](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty )
- [bemenu ](https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu )
- emoji-font (e.g. [noto-emoji ](https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji ))
- [gammastep ](https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep )
- [grim ](https://sr.ht/~emersion/grim/ )
- [mako ](https://github.com/emersion/mako )
- [polkit-gnome ](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/policykit-gnome )
- [slurp ](https://github.com/emersion/slurp )
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- [acpiclient ](https://sourceforge.net/projects/acpiclient/files/acpiclient/ )
- [playerctl ](https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl )
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install all with: ```sudo pacman -Syu alacritty bemenu noto-fonts-emoji gammastep grim mako polkit-gnome slurp acpi playerctl```
optional you should consider installing [xorg-xwayland ](https://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ) for support for non-wayland applications
### Recommended Environment
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These [Environment Variables ](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_Variables ) are recommended for using sway:\
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway\
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland\
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For a consistent Theme across GTK and QT applications you can also set the Adwaita theme (libadwaita) which also has a adwaita-qt version in the AUR.
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### Licences
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the wallpaper is "Winter Fairies" by David Revoy, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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You can download it [here ](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/artworks-src__2020-12-21_Winter-Fairies_by-David-Revoy.html ) or find more artworks [here ](https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/artworks.html )
