Swaysome

This binary helps you configure sway to work a bit more like Awesome. This currently means workspaces that are name-spaced on a per-screen basis.

It may also work with i3, but this is untested.

swaysome is compatible with sworkstyle.

Usage

If you have Rust installed, then you can just cargo install swaysome and you're good to go.

Otherwise, you may grab a pre-built binary from the CI and put it in your $PATH.

Then create the file (and the directory if needed) "~/.config/sway/config.d/swaysome.conf" and paste this inside:

# Change focus between workspaces
unbindsym $mod+1
unbindsym $mod+2
unbindsym $mod+3
unbindsym $mod+4
unbindsym $mod+5
unbindsym $mod+6
unbindsym $mod+7
unbindsym $mod+8
unbindsym $mod+9
unbindsym $mod+0
bindsym $mod+1 exec "swaysome focus 1"
bindsym $mod+2 exec "swaysome focus 2"
bindsym $mod+3 exec "swaysome focus 3"
bindsym $mod+4 exec "swaysome focus 4"
bindsym $mod+5 exec "swaysome focus 5"
bindsym $mod+6 exec "swaysome focus 6"
bindsym $mod+7 exec "swaysome focus 7"
bindsym $mod+8 exec "swaysome focus 8"
bindsym $mod+9 exec "swaysome focus 9"
bindsym $mod+0 exec "swaysome focus 0"

# Move containers between workspaces
unbindsym $mod+Shift+1
unbindsym $mod+Shift+2
unbindsym $mod+Shift+3
unbindsym $mod+Shift+4
unbindsym $mod+Shift+5
unbindsym $mod+Shift+6
unbindsym $mod+Shift+7
unbindsym $mod+Shift+8
unbindsym $mod+Shift+9
unbindsym $mod+Shift+0
bindsym $mod+Shift+1 exec "swaysome move 1"
bindsym $mod+Shift+2 exec "swaysome move 2"
bindsym $mod+Shift+3 exec "swaysome move 3"
bindsym $mod+Shift+4 exec "swaysome move 4"
bindsym $mod+Shift+5 exec "swaysome move 5"
bindsym $mod+Shift+6 exec "swaysome move 6"
bindsym $mod+Shift+7 exec "swaysome move 7"
bindsym $mod+Shift+8 exec "swaysome move 8"
bindsym $mod+Shift+9 exec "swaysome move 9"
bindsym $mod+Shift+0 exec "swaysome move 0"

# Move focused container to next output
bindsym $mod+o exec "swaysome next_output"

# Move focused container to previous output
bindsym $mod+Shift+o exec "swaysome prev_output"

# Init workspaces for every screen
exec "swaysome init 1"

Finally append your sway configuration with this:

include ~/.config/sway/config.d/*.conf

You should end-up with workspaces from 1 to 0, prefixed with a screen index, giving you workspace 01 on the first screen, and workspace 11 on the second one, both accessible with shortcut $mod+1.

The init command simply walks through every screen to initialize a prefixed workspace. It does it backwards so that you end-up focused on the first screen, as usual.

Exhaustive swaysome commands list

• move [name]: move the focused container to [name]
• next_output: move the focused container to the next output
• prev_output: move the focused container to the previous output
• focus [name]: change focus to [name]
• focus_all_outputs [name]: change all outputs focus to [name]
• init [name]: cycle all outputs to create a default workspace with name [name]