O gerenciador de janelas e compositor Sway é uma alternativa ao i3 para quem deseja usar o servidor gráfico Wayland. 

Compositor Sway 1.8 RC1

O Sway - Window Manager é um compositor do Wayland e um substituto para o gerenciador de janelas i3 para X11. Ele funciona com sua configuração i3 existente e oferece suporte à maioria dos recursos do i3, além de alguns extras.

O anúncio foi feito em 26 de Novembro de 2022.

"O Sway 1.8-rc1 contém 175 alterações de 67 contribuidores. Este pré-lançamento depende do wlroots 0.16.0. Consulte as notas de versão do wlroots."

Novas características

• Um novo comando bindgesture pode ser usado para vincular ações a gestos do touchpad
• Armários de tela mais robustos e seguros por meio do novo protocolo ext-session-lock-v1 (suportado por swaylock)
• Um novo comando de desconexão de saída foi adicionado para remover saídas virtuais
• A nova configuração "desativar durante o trackpointing" da libinput e os eventos da roda de rolagem de alta resolução agora são suportados
• xdg-activation-v1 agora é usado para correspondência de espaço de trabalho mais confiável ao iniciar novos clientes
• Várias melhorias para o renderizador Vulkan

Mudanças

• No Linux, CAP_SYS_NICE pode ser configurado para melhorar o agendamento: #6994
• Os nomes dos fabricantes nos identificadores de saída podem ter mudado: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/3541#note_1384124
• SUID-root não é mais suportado: #7044
• O comando output dpms foi descontinuado (substituído pela potência de saída): #7083
• A dependência pcre foi substituída por pcre2: #6883

Changelog:

-k (2): Add descriptions for `stacking` and `tabbed` layouts man: Fix trailing spaces Alan (1): Update grimshot.1.scd Aleksei Bavshin (1): xdg-shell: use toplevel geometry to adjust the popup box Alex Maese (3): sway: Add non-desktop-output type sway: add non-desktop outputs to json when running `swaymsg -t get_outputs` swaymsg: show non-desktop property when pretty printing outputs Alexander Browne (1): Minor update to focus_on_window_activation Alexander Gramiak (1): sway/input: don't pass possibly invalid modifiers pointer Alexander Orzechowski (2): container_floating_set_default_size: Store workspace size box on the stack workspace_create: Don't allow NULL name Alice Carroll (1): Support cursor capture in grimshot Andri Yngvason (1): sway/commands/output: Add command for unplugging non-physical outputs Baltazár Radics (3): ipc: make get_deco_rect check config->hide_lone_tab man: sway(5) move fixes container_get_siblings: handle NULL workspace Bill Li (1): Updating criteria checking with PCRE2 Callum Andrew (1): criteria: allow matching for NULL string criteria Daniel De Graaf (7): Avoid format-truncation warning Shuffle variables to satisfy -Werror=restrict Implement ext-session-lock-v1 Avoid inspecting a NULL view in seat_set_focus ext-session-lock: disable direct scan-out when locked Rework session lock keyboard focus handling Fix focus tracking when session lock is active David Rosca (1): container: Fix crash when view unmaps + maps quickly David96 (1): commands/move: Fix crash when pos_y is omitted Eskil (1): Add Swedish README Ferdinand Schober (4): allow pointer_constraints on layer_shell surfaces check for NULL use seat directly Use keyboard_state.focused_surface directly Filip Szczepański (1): Fix crash in xdg_activation_v1.c Florian Franzen (1): sway: add bindgesture command Greg Depoire--Ferrer (1): swaynag: move close_button up to fix SIGSEGV Hongyi (1): Polish the language in README.zh-CN.md & sync with English one Hugo Osvaldo Barrera (3): Avoid unecessary string copy Reject font values that are invalid for pango Reuse parsed PangoFontDescription Joan Bruguera (2): swaybar: Prioritize hotspot events to bar bindings swaybar: Make hotspots block bar release bindings Kenny Levinsen (3): meson: check: false on run_command Print deprecation notice when running SUID Refuse to start when SUID is detected Kirill Chibisov (1): build: fix building with basu Kirill Primak (9): swaynag: remove buffer destruction condition chore: chase wlr_output_layout_get_box() update Chase wlroots xdg-shell refactor chore: chase wlroots xdg-shell update xdg-shell: schedule a configure on maximize request input: chase delta_discrete semantics change ci: install hwdata Use wlr_damage_ring output: set damage ring bounds to pixel values Leonardo Hernández Hernández (2): sway/input: fix bad position of wlr_drag sway/input: wlr_seat_keyboard() now takes wlr_keyboard LordRishav (1): Add a Hindi (हिन्दी) translation to the README Manuel Stoeckl (2): sway/main: move constants off the stack Use shm_open instead of mkstemp Marco Rubin (1): Translated README into Italian Martin Michlmayr (1): sway-output.5: improve display of parameter Michael Weiser (1): config: Remove unused mouse binding structure Moon Sungjoon (1): sway/input: destroy sway_switch properly Muhamed Hobi (1): Fix snprintf compiler warning Nathan Schulte (2): swaybar: fix tray_padding vs min-height re: scale swaybar: fix tray item icon scaling, positioning Nicolas Avrutin (1): commands/focus: fix segfault when no container is already focused. Nihal Jere (9): swaynag: die on all allocation failures swaynag: allocate button_details with details swaynag: statically allocate button_close, and move declaration swaynag: remove unnecessary zero of swaynag struct swaynag: remove redundant status variables in main remove unnecessary strlen call swaynag: do error checking and rename read_from_stdin swaynag: improve robustness when loading config swaynag: combine consecutive declaration/assignments Oğuz Ersen (1): bash-completion: localize variables Patrick Hilhorst (1): treat fullscreen windows as 'tiled' for commands/focus Puck Meerburg (2): tree: support formatting null titles criteria: allow matching on empty (NULL) titles Ronan Pigott (11): cmd/swap: error on swapping a container with itself root: move the workspace matching code to its own file node: prettify node type names launcher: track workspaces by node launcher: use xdga tokens launcher: rename pid_workspace to launcher_ctx view: associate launch contexts with views launcher: initialize launcher_ctxs once on startup launcher: fudge the interface a bit launcher: export xdga tokens and use them for workspace matching launcher: export X startup ids and use them for workspace matching Rouven Czerwinski (3): transaction: destroying nodes aren't hidden server: request xdg-shell v2 realtime: request SCHED_RR using CAP_SYS_NICE Sefa Eyeoglu (1): build: bump wlroots dependency to 0.16.0 Seth Barberee (1): [IPC] Add repeat delay/rate info to keyboard Simon Ser (48): swaymsg: replace if with switch in pretty_print swaymsg: add GET_TREE pretty-printing swaybar: fix errno handling in status_handle_readable Add cairo_image_surface_create error handling build: bump version to 1.8-dev Destroy sub-surfaces with parent layer-shell surface Add safety assert in parse_movement_unit Upgrade for wlroots surface refactoring commands/focus: drop trailing whitespace build: execute wlroots subproject before finding deps Use bools for CLI flags readme: add link to Italian translation readme: sort language list alphabetically readme: use relative links for translations xdg-shell: use wlr_xdg_toplevel in sway_view xdg-shell: use wlr_xdg_popup in sway_xdg_popup Remove all sprintf calls Remove WLR_SWITCH_STATE_TOGGLE usage swaybar: remove swaybar_output.input_region swaybar: set opaque region Replace strncpy with memcpy De-duplicate IPC output descriptions Handle NULL output make/model/serial build: link with -pthread ipc: remove chatty debug log messages config/output: use wlr_output_commit_state Remove access to wlr_input_device union Rename dpms output command to power ipc: add "power" to output reply config.in: switch to `output power` Remove internal references to DPMS Enable single-pixel-buffer-v1 ipc: drop WLR_OUTPUT_ADAPTIVE_SYNC_UNKNOWN case config/output: test adaptive sync ipc: expose mode picture aspect ratio swaymsg: show mode picture aspect ratio build: simplify protocol paths Fix leaks in criteria_destroy() Add support for ext-idle-notify-v1 Use wl_signal_emit_mutable() lock: fix crash on output destroy ci: checkout wlroots 0.16.0 build: drop wayland-scanner fallback build: unify server & client protocol generation build: drop "server" from target name for protocol code build: drop intermediate libraries for protocols build: drop unused wayland-egl dependency build: bump version to 1.8-rc1 Simon Zeni (5): sway/commands: add missing wlr_keyboard interface include in xkb_switch_layout sway/input: use wlr_input_device from input device base sway/input/cursor: take device mm size from wlr_tablet sway/input/seat: take output name from specialized input device sway/input: follow up wlroots input device events renaming Thomas Hebb (4): input/seat: unset has_focus when focus_stack becomes empty Remove some erroneous apostrophes in comments Don't enter seatop_move_floating when fullscreen layer_shell: keep output non-NULL wherever possible Thomas Jost (1): Strip quotes in bindsym --input-device=... Tobias Bengfort (1): tray: do not render passive items Tudor Brindus (6): input/cursor: count pointer gestures as idle activity input/cursor: treat swipe begin as idle activity too input/cursor: pass through pointer hold gestures input: focus floating container when clicked on border input: focus container when scrolling on titlebar input: tweak focus behavior to allow focusing parent containers Tuomas Yrjölä (1): xwayland: listen to `request_activate` event Victor Makarov (1): xkb_switch_layout: fix relative layout switches Yaroslav de la Peña Smirnov (1): Fix keymap being NULL and segfaulting on dev add Yasin Silavi (1): Fix farsi label cparm (1): Avoid double free in criteria_destroy() kraftwerk28 (2): Chase wlroots X11 hints update Allocate enough space for `cmd_results->error` llyyr (2): swaymsg: fix floating_nodes being ignored grimshot: fix tilde expansion within quotes ndren (1): Replace pcre with pcre2 ohno418 (1): Improve Japanese translation pudiva chip líquida (1): Support libinput's 1.21 new dwtp option zkldi (1): fix: remove redundant empty statement in main.c マリウス (1): man: Add XWayland information

Fonte

Instalação

Para instalar o Sway utilize o comando para a sua distribuição Linux.

Para Arch Linux e Manjaro

sudo pacman -S sway swaybg swayidle wdisplays sway-backgrounds grim slurp

Para Debian e Ubuntu

sudo apt install sway swaybg swayidle wdisplays sway-backgrounds grim slurp

Para Fedora

sudo dnf install sway swaybg swayidle wdisplays sway-backgrounds grim slurp

Para openSUSE

sudo zypper install sway swaybg swayidle wdisplays sway-backgrounds grim slurp

Configuração

Para poder configurar ao seu gosto copie o arquivo de configurações padrão para a sua home.

Crie o diretório de configurações do Sway.

mkdir ~/.config/sway

Copie o arquivo de configurações.

cp /etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway

Configure usando o nano.

nano ~/.config/sway/config

 

Como documentação recomendo a do Arch Linux.

Documentação Sway