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dedicated to the Sway window manager, a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.

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I have no idea how to use SwayWM (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/swaywm@lemmy.ml

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I've been suggested to use a tiling window manager like Sway since it allows for controlling windows with hotkeys, but I'm having trouble getting started. I installed it in Fedora and tried logging back in with SwayFX (since it has features like blurring) but after I'm just shown a wallpaper with a top bar, the top left shows a 1 and the top right shows the time. I don't know what to do there. I tried looking up guides but didn't find anything, can you link me some if you know of any?

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[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Cheat Sheet: https://gist.github.com/ur4ltz/d0167120a9fe718bdc048a2599ba139d

Important one is Meta+D. This opens dmenu, which lets you run commands, such as to open apps.

Dmenu isn’t my favorite. I like to download Fuzzel, an app launcher. It lists all your apps for you. I bind that to something Meta+A. Fuzzel also has a command running mode that operates like dmenu, which I bind to Meta+D.