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Running Sway in openSUSE

December 21, 2024 | 1 minute read

openSUSE tumbleweed has a good collection of sway window manager & it’s surrounding tools. There are a couple of ways to install sway & related packages

Traditional way

If you wish to handpick your sway setup, you can download individual packages via zypper.

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sudo zypper in sway waybar

Via Patterns

A pattern is nothing but a collection of related packages which could be installed via single keyword. Sway also has such a pattern, which can be installed via the command below. This list of packages this patterns installs are defined here.

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sudo zypper in patterns-sway-sway

openSUSEway

This is an opinionated sway desktop environment which ships with a bunch of pre configured packages & settings. More details & install instructions can be found in the openSUSEway wiki

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