Differences from i3
- Sway is a Wayland compositor (duh)
- You can use your
floating_modifierto resize and move tiled windows - Sway handles things like output configuration (rather than something like xrandr)
- Sway supports multiple non-modifier keys when assigning key bindings (see Shortcut handling)
- The default keybindings in sway are different from those in i3. Read your sway config to learn them, or copy over your i3 config to use what you're used to.
- Sway handles your wallpaper
- Sway handles input configuration (man sway-input)
- Sway is documented through man pages, rather than the website
- A few i3 commands only make sense on X11 and aren't present in sway
- You may occasionally run into minor inconsistencies between sway syntax and i3 syntax. Just tweak your commands to be a bit more explicit if necessary
- i3lock forks into the background when run. For swaylock, this behavior has to be explicitly requested via
-f - Sway config files support an
includedirective to include other config files. You can for example put all yourbindsymshortcut bindings in their own file. - i3 has support to export a layout and to restore it (or parts of it), sway only has export, no import.
- More stuff, some which are listed in this reddit post.
