Swaysome

This binary helps you configure sway to work a bit more like Awesome. This currently means workspaces that are name-spaced on a per-screen basis.

It may also work with i3, but this is untested.

swaysome should be compatible with sworkstyle.

Installation

Arch Linux: Found on the AUR as swaysome-git.

If you have Rust installed, then you can just cargo install swaysome and you're good to go.

Otherwise, you may grab a pre-built binary from the CI and put it in your $PATH.

WARNING: please double-check that your swaysome binary is in sway's $PATH. Depending on your setup, the $PATH you have in your shell may not be the same as sway's, and if swaysome can't be called by sway, the symptoms will only look like non-functional shortcuts.
If you're in this situation, a quick workaround is to call swaysome with its full absolute path from sway's config to check that everything works before fixing your $PATH issue.

Usage

Then create the file (and the directory if needed) ~/.config/sway/config.d/swaysome.conf and paste this inside:

unbindcode $mod+10
unbindcode $mod+11
unbindcode $mod+12
unbindcode $mod+13
unbindcode $mod+14
unbindcode $mod+15
unbindcode $mod+16
unbindcode $mod+17
unbindcode $mod+18
unbindcode $mod+19
bindcode $mod+10 exec "swaysome focus 1"
bindcode $mod+11 exec "swaysome focus 2"
bindcode $mod+12 exec "swaysome focus 3"
bindcode $mod+13 exec "swaysome focus 4"
bindcode $mod+14 exec "swaysome focus 5"
bindcode $mod+15 exec "swaysome focus 6"
bindcode $mod+16 exec "swaysome focus 7"
bindcode $mod+17 exec "swaysome focus 8"
bindcode $mod+18 exec "swaysome focus 9"
bindcode $mod+19 exec "swaysome focus 0"

unbindcode $mod+Shift+10
unbindcode $mod+Shift+11
unbindcode $mod+Shift+12
unbindcode $mod+Shift+13
unbindcode $mod+Shift+14
unbindcode $mod+Shift+15
unbindcode $mod+Shift+16
unbindcode $mod+Shift+17
unbindcode $mod+Shift+18
unbindcode $mod+Shift+19
bindcode $mod+Shift+10 exec "swaysome move 1"
bindcode $mod+Shift+11 exec "swaysome move 2"
bindcode $mod+Shift+12 exec "swaysome move 3"
bindcode $mod+Shift+13 exec "swaysome move 4"
bindcode $mod+Shift+14 exec "swaysome move 5"
bindcode $mod+Shift+15 exec "swaysome move 6"
bindcode $mod+Shift+16 exec "swaysome move 7"
bindcode $mod+Shift+17 exec "swaysome move 8"
bindcode $mod+Shift+18 exec "swaysome move 9"
bindcode $mod+Shift+19 exec "swaysome move 0"

unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+10
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+11
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+12
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+13
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+14
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+15
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+16
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+17
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+18
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+19
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+10 exec "swaysome focus-group 1"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+11 exec "swaysome focus-group 2"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+12 exec "swaysome focus-group 3"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+13 exec "swaysome focus-group 4"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+14 exec "swaysome focus-group 5"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+15 exec "swaysome focus-group 6"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+16 exec "swaysome focus-group 7"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+17 exec "swaysome focus-group 8"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+18 exec "swaysome focus-group 9"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+19 exec "swaysome focus-group 0"

unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+10
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+11
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+12
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+13
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+14
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+15
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+16
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+17
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+18
unbindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+19
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+10 exec "swaysome move-to-group 1"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+11 exec "swaysome move-to-group 2"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+12 exec "swaysome move-to-group 3"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+13 exec "swaysome move-to-group 4"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+14 exec "swaysome move-to-group 5"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+15 exec "swaysome move-to-group 6"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+16 exec "swaysome move-to-group 7"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+17 exec "swaysome move-to-group 8"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+18 exec "swaysome move-to-group 9"
bindcode $mod+Ctrl+Shift+19 exec "swaysome move-to-group 0"

bindcode $mod+o exec "swaysome next-output"

bindcode $mod+Shift+o exec "swaysome prev-output"

exec "swaysome init 1"

Finally append your sway configuration with this:

include ~/.config/sway/config.d/*.conf

You should end-up with workspaces from 1 to 0, prefixed with a screen index, giving you workspace 11 on the first screen, and workspace 21 on the second one, both accessible with shortcut $mod+1 when focused on the right output.

The init command simply walks through every screen to initialize a prefixed workspace. It does it backwards so that you end-up focused on the first screen, as usual.

Exhaustive swaysome commands list

• move [name]: move the focused container to [name] on the same group
• move-to-group [id]: move the focused container to the same relative workspace on the [id] workspace group
• next-output: move the focused container to the next output
• prev-output: move the focused container to the previous output
• focus [name]: change focus to [name] on the same group
• focus-all-outputs [name]: change all outputs focus to [name]
• focus-group [id]: change focus to group [id]
• next-group: change focus to the next workspace group
• previous-group: change focus to the previous workspace group
• init [name]: cycle all outputs to create a default workspace with name [name]
• rearrange-workspaces Rearrange already opened workspaces to the correct outputs, useful when plugging or unplugging screens

Breaking changes

• Starting with 2.0, next_output and prev_output have been changed to next-output and prev-output.