Manjaro Sway Edition

We are building a manjaro sway edition - with the following principles:

use a decent cli/tui solution
convention overrideable by configuration
prepare opt-out
build everything automatically

How to install

You can find the latest images on manjaro-sway.download and on github releases. Depending on their size, the iso may be split into a multipart zip archive. To extract the regular images from multipart zip archive, download both the z01 and the zip files, and run the command:

zip -FF manjaro-sway-*.zip --out manjaro-full.zip && unzip manjaro-full.zip

You can create a bootable USB stick using Etcher. Check our FAQ for additional hints.

What image to choose?

We currently release two images:

a conservative image: lts kernel, "stable" packages
an arch-like image: stable kernel, latest/"unstable" packages

Known issues

nvidia proprietary drivers <470 are not supported by sway.
nvidia's 470 drivers and the 5.14 Kernel have just added sway support for proprietary drivers and are known to cause problems.
nvidia open source drivers (noveau) are known to cause problems, refer to the arch wiki for pointers
vmware player is known to cause problems similar to nouveau - you could use gnome boxes or virtualbox instead - refer to the arch wiki for pointers

Screenshots

Credentials

user: manjaro
password: manjaro

Development

Sources

How to Build

Check out the ISO profile
Run this command in the root directory

buildiso -p sway

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 our desktop-settings and 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 background image is beautifully made by reddit user u/atlas-ark
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

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Jonas Strassel} 🚇 💻 🚧	_{Simon Büeler} 💻 🚧 🤔	_{Anton Picetti} 🐛 💻	_Mathew 🐛 🤔 💻	_{Brandon Hartshorn} 🐛	_{Andre Vallestero} 🎨	_{Rafael dos Santos Silva} 💻
_{Andreas Gerlach} 🤔 💻	_{Matti Hyttinen} 🤔	_{FallenChromium} 💻 🤔	_{Алексей Муратов} 🐛 💻	_{Hakan Yilmaz} 🐛 💻	_{Aaron Honeycutt} 📖	_{Vinicius Aguiar} 🐛
_Zeioth 💻	_Janek 🚧 🐛	_{Michał Wołoszyn} 💻 🐛	_annuel 📖	_{Andreas Böttger} 🐛	_{Adrian Martin} 💻 🐛	_heapifyman 🐛
_Ivo 💻	_Arkaitz 🐛