Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland
i3-compatible Wayland compositor. Contribute to swaywm/sway development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland launched on March 4, 2016 with 163 votes, #192 of 4,409 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Sway is a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland that maintains compatibility with i3, the popular X11 window manager. It organizes windows automatically into tiles rather than requiring manual placement, and works with Wayland, the modern display server protocol. Sway is designed for developers and advanced Linux users who prefer keyboard-driven workflow and want i3's familiar behavior on Wayland-based systems.
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