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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.

[–] jutty@blendit.bsd.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Typically you'd get a terminal with Super+Enter or Alt+Enter depending on the configuration. You can copy /etc/sway/config to ~/.config/sway/config and edit it yourself. There you'll also find a key binding to reload the configuration. The default terminal is foot and many package managers will pull it together with sway when you install it. Otherwise, you can either get it or edit the config file mentioned before and set a different terminal. Once you can get a terminal, you can use it to configure everything else.