sway

Sway

Sway-specific files for this setup live in this directory.

Install

From the repo root:

./setup-sway.sh

The script installs the Sway desktop packages, bootstraps the shared mise toolchain, copies the configs in this directory, enables Docker, and opens the required ufw rules for localsend.

Login and session startup stay managed by CachyOS.

Shared Dev Tooling

./setup-sway.sh calls ./setup-mise.sh, which:

• installs mise via paru
• copies mise-setup/mise/config.toml to ~/.config/mise/config.toml
• installs the shared toolchain with mise install
• installs a Fish activation snippet in ~/.config/fish/conf.d/

Neovim config is copied from ../mise-setup/nvim/init.lua, so the nested mise-setup submodule is the only Neovim source of truth in this repo.

Files here

• config: main Sway config
• waybar-config: Sway version of the Waybar config
• swaylock.conf: lock screen config
• gtk-3.0-settings.ini: GTK 3 theme settings
• gtk-4.0-settings.ini: GTK 4 theme settings
• sway-portals.conf: portal backend selection for Sway
• cycle-workspace.sh: clamped workspace cycling helper for gestures
• sway-screenshot.sh: shared screenshot helper for region, output, and focused window capture

Shared assets

setup-sway.sh reuses shared files from ../hyprland/ and ../mise-setup/ instead of duplicating them here:

• wallpaper
• fuzzel config
• Waybar CSS
• swaync CSS
• gazelle config
• Neovim config from ../mise-setup/nvim/

Notes

• screenshots use grim + slurp, with jq for focused-window capture, save to disk, copy PNG data to the clipboard with wl-copy, and show a notification preview with the saved path
• the polkit agent is polkit-gnome
• locking uses swaylock-effects with a blurred version of the wallpaper
• there is no idle autolock; locking is manual or triggered by closing the laptop lid
• three-finger horizontal swipes move across numbered workspaces and clamp to one past the highest occupied workspace
• portals use xdg-desktop-portal-gtk by default and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr for screenshots and screencasts
• t3code is installed via the t3code-bin AUR package
• for high-DPI displays, edit ~/.config/sway/config and adjust output * scale

Steam

If you use output scaling above 1, XWayland games can end up blurry or lose native resolutions under stock Sway. gamescope is installed as the minimal workaround for Steam games.

In a game's Steam launch options, start with:

gamescope -f -- %command%

but that defaults to 720p.

For a 1440p display:

gamescope -f -W 2560 -H 1440 -w 2560 -h 1440 -- %command%

(anaolgously for other displays like the Zephyrus G14's 2880x1800 etc.)

Zephyrus G14

For the ASUS-specific keyboard lighting and WirePlumber audio fix, run the shared hardware script from the repo root:

./setup-g14.sh

• ./setup-g14.sh patches ~/.config/sway/config to output * scale 1.5. (1.6 breaks imv as the buffer is not divisible by 2.)
• ./setup-g14.sh remaps the screenshot bindings in ~/.config/sway/config from Print to XF86Launch1 for the G14 M4 macro button.

If need be for external monitors find the avaialble refresh rates:

swaymsg -t get_outputs

and set the desired one like this for thunderbolt:

swaymsg output DP-3 mode 2560x1440@144Hz

or like this for HDMI port:

swaymsg output HDMI-A-1 mode 2560x1440@144Hz

This should persist for the same monitor on reconnecting.