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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Fedora 38 : Sway on VirtualBox.

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
You can find this desktop at this GitHub project.
The official webpage comes with a video tutorial on how to use it.
Installation is simple with these commands using the dnf tool:
# dnf group install sway-desktop-environment
# dnf install sway-config-fedora
It is possible to ask you for additional arguments for installation like this: --allowerasing or --skip-broken.
After installation, reboot and select sway from the desktop switcher
NOTE: The display for virtual video card from VirtualBox need to be set to Enable 3D Acceleration.
Let's see the result of this desktop environment ...