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). For other Wayland-compatible version of some useful i3 packages you can look the migration guide on the sway wiki.īefore Sway can be started, it needs access to your hardware devices such as your keyboard, mouse, and graphics card. Before starting sway it is advisable to either install them or set a new launcher and terminal in the configuration. The default application launcher is wmenu AUR (but the default configuration still relies on dmenu_path provided by 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.