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Dev tools · August 16, 2015

Sway – i3 for wayland

i3-compatible Wayland compositor. Contribute to swaywm/sway development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sway – i3 for wayland launched on August 16, 2015 with 10 votes, #1,553 of 3,588 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

Sway is a Wayland compositor that maintains compatibility with i3, the popular tiling window manager. It brings i3's keyboard-driven workflow and configuration approach to Wayland, making it suitable for developers and power users who prefer tiled window management on modern display servers. The project is open source and welcomes community contributions through GitHub.

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