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About Sway

As the website of Sway mentions:

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Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.

Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which maximizes the efficiency of your screen and can be quickly manipulated using only the keyboard.

How and why do we use Sway

We use Sway to automatically arrange the different workspaces and windows on the Raspberry Pis to display the different BeeScreens applications during our events.

We use Sway because it is a tiling window manager that works with the Wayland protocol. We use Wayland because it is a more modern and fast protocol than X11.

Resources and alternatives

These resources and alternatives are related to the current item (in alphabetical order).

  • i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
  • Wayland - A replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture