My configuration and documentation on Sway window manager on Arch Linux

Initial packages:

# pacman -S sway swaybg wofi waybar xorg-xwayland xorg-xhost

Environment variables

/etc/environment:

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland

Starting sway:

• Add following to $HOME/.zprofile:

[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec sway --unsupported-gpu

GDM:

pacman -S gdm

systemctl enable gdm

Nvidia:

ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules

Add --unsupported-gpu to Exec line in /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop

Qt apps:

• Install qt5ct, qt6ct, kvantum, breeze and breeze-icons
• Choose a theme in Kvantum
• Apply kvantum-dark and choose an icon theme in Qt5ct
• Add QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct to /etc/environment

Gtk apps:

• Install gnome-tweaks and gnome-themes-extra
• Choose Adwaita_Dark and a desired icon theme in gnome-tweaks

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

Clipboard

• Install copyq

Screenshots

• Install grim, slurp and wl-clipboard

OBS Studio black preview fix

• Add nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to kernel parameters

Notifications

• Install swaync (AUR)

Policy Kit GUI Authentication

• Install polkit-kde-agent

Set Dolphin as default file manager:

xdg-mime default org.kde.dolphin.desktop inode/directory

Set Firefox as default browser:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

Dolphin Alacritty

• Add following to $HOME/.config/kdeglobals:

[General]
TerminalApplication=alacritty