sway

Sottomano follows sway through its IPC socket (SWAYSOCK). It is tested with sway 1.12. For installing sway itself, follow its instructions.

Start with the session

sway does not start graphical-session.target by itself, which the sottomano user service from the session page waits for. Start a target bound to it at the end of your sway config, after exporting the session environment to systemd:

exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY SWAYSOCK XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP && systemctl --user start sway-session.target

with ~/.config/systemd/user/sway-session.target:

[Unit]
BindsTo=graphical-session.target
Wants=graphical-session.target
After=graphical-session-pre.target

Window styling rules

The window styling group writes ~/.config/sottomano/sway.conf with the window gaps. Include it in your sway config:

include ~/.config/sottomano/sway.conf

The home-manager module adds this include when wayland.windowManager.sway.enable is set. Sottomano asks sway to reload after each change.

What sway does not offer

• Stock sway has no rounded window corners, blur or per-window border colours, so the window styling group only shows the gaps slider.
• There is no overview: pressing the active workspace does nothing.
• Workspaces cannot be reordered: dragging one in the bar reports that the compositor has no equivalent. Dragging a window onto another workspace moves it, but windows have no columns to reorder within a workspace.
• Toggling the overview, maximizing, centring and focusing the previous window from a gamepad report that sway has no equivalent.

Apps launched from the bar start in their own transient user service through systemd-run --user.