Manjaro Sway Edition

!manjaro sway colors

This is manjaro sway edition - built according to the following principles:

• use a decent cli/tui solution
• convention override-able by configuration
• prepare opt-out
• build everything in automation

How to install

You can find the latest images on sway.manjaro.download.

You can create a boot-able USB stick using Etcher or a similar tool.

Check out our FAQ for additional hints.

Note on release branches

> We currently only publish images built against Manjaro's unstable branch. Sway doesn't carry the deep dependency-tree entanglements that the larger DE variants (KDE, GNOME, XFCE) have to manage when promoting packages from unstable → testing → stable, so for our edition unstable is generally a fine daily driver. If you'd rather track a slower-moving branch, you can switch to testing or stable after install.

Noteworthy side-projects

Some projects evolved from the this sway distribution include:

• tons of github actions to orchestrate iso-/image- and package-building, as well as repo-orchestration
• mjr.sh a little service for shortening links, available in Manjaro Sway as the mjr cli

Development

Sources

Everything this distribution builds lives in this repository:

• iso-profiles/community/sway — the ISO profile
• packages/manjaro-sway-settings/payload — the desktop settings and skel
• packages/ — the PKGBUILDs of the pacman repository, with

• worker/ and docs/ — what serves

How to Build

The ISO and the packages are built by build-iso.yml and build-packages.yml. To build an ISO locally with manjaro-tools:

buildiso -p sway -f -b unstable

Before pushing a profile change, the cheap check the CI runs is worth running too:

python3 scripts/check_iso_packages.py

Contributing

There are lots of ways to contribute.

• Give us a ⭐ here on github to increase our visibility
• Help collecting implementation ideas in discussions
• Implement ideas in the desktop settings and the iso profile and create pull requests
• Contribute to the documentation and help others in our chat
• Get in touch with the broader Manjaro community.
• Use the distribution on a daily basis, find and share solutions to problems you have.
• Get the manjaro packages before they are released to the general public by switching to our "unstable" or "testing" branch and report issues you face early on.

Credits

• initial inspiration came from the sway branch in the manjaro iso profiles repo
• initially a lot of work got copied from the manjaro sway arm overlay
• the logo is a contribution by André Vallestero

Donations

If you like our distribution and have some bucks to spare, please consider contributions to the projects and developers we rely on the most:

• for sway and wlroots, consider Drew DeVault
• for waybar, consider Alexis Rouillard