

If & thenįor more details, see Xinit#Autostart X at login From a display manager Similarly to X, Sway can be started by adding the following to your shell initialization file (see Command-line shell#Login shell): To start Sway, simply type sway in the Linux console. If polkit is already installed on your system, Sway should automatically get access to your seat.Īlternatively, if polkit is not installed on your system and you want to use seatd instead, add yourself to the seat user group and enable/start rvice, re-log and pick one of the following methods to start Sway. seatd, which will be installed alongside Sway as a dependency of wlroots.On Arch Linux, Sway can get access to your seat using either The collection of these hardware devices is called a seat, as mentioned in sd-login(3). Before starting sway it is advisable to either install them or set a new launcher and terminal in the configuration.īefore Sway can be started, it needs access to your hardware devices such as your keyboard, mouse, and graphics card. The default application launcher is dmenu and the default terminal emulator is foot.

You may also install swaylock, swayidle and swaybg to lock your screen, set up an idle manager and set wallpapers respectively. After NVIDIA driver version 495, sway works if you enable kernel mode setting and run sway with -unsupported-gpu. Note: All proprietary graphics drivers are not supported, including NVIDIA. It is advisable to always update wlroots when you update sway, due to tight dependencies. The development version can be installed using sway-git AUR. Sway can be installed with the sway package. 5.11 Mouse not working in WINE applications.5.4 Failed to connect to a Wayland server.4.10 Change screen resolution after start.4.9 Manage Sway-specific daemons with systemd.
