https://www.swaywm.com/tags/ubuntu/Recent content in Ubuntu on Sway窗口管理器Hugozh-CN[black8](https://0x8.net/)Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:24:57 +0800https://www.swaywm.com/posts/ubuntu-install-sway/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:38:28 +0800https://www.swaywm.com/posts/ubuntu-install-sway/<h1 id="sway-on-ubuntu">Sway on Ubuntu<a class="anchor" href="#sway-on-ubuntu">#</a></h1> <p>Installation guide for the latest <a href="https://swaywm.org">sway</a> version on Ubuntu 20.04</p> <p>Source can be found on <a href="https://github.com/Llandy3d/sway-on-ubuntu">github</a></p> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction<a class="anchor" href="#introduction">#</a></h2> <p>This guide aims to be an easy to follow and straightforward way to install the master version of Sway and the wlroots dependency.</p> <p>It will then extend to useful projects you might want installed for a complete desktop experience. <a href="https://www.swaywm.com/imgs/example-working-on-docs.webp"><img src="https://www.swaywm.com/imgs/example-working-on-docs.webp" alt="Example Sway Setup" loading="lazy" decoding="async"/></a> <em>Example of Customized Sway setup (<a href="https://github.com/Llandy3d/dotfiles">dotfiles</a>)</em></p> <h2 id="why-on-ubuntu-">Why on Ubuntu ?<a class="anchor" href="#why-on-ubuntu-">#</a></h2> <p>If you want to try out this wonderful window manager and you are used to Ubuntu you don&rsquo;t have to make the jump directly, you can install sway and changing between Gnome and Sway will be a matter of logging out and selecting which one to boot. <img src="https://www.swaywm.com/imgs/desktop-selector.png" alt="Desktop Selector" loading="lazy" decoding="async"/></p>