Debian Sway v1 - My first setup

This year I started using Sway on my laptop running the latest stable Debian 12. Sway is a tiling window manager and a i3wm clone for Wayland. As all tiling window managers, you can start, arrange and align windows directly with the keyboard.

I didn't find much on the web about how to setup Sway on Debian, therefore I will share my experience here. Getting it running on Debian needs time and patience. There is no official or unofficial Debian ISO image and that means you need to setup everything from scratch.

If you simply want to try Sway, without having to setup everything on your own, I would suggest Fedora Sway. It has a lot of tools already installed out of the box and is a great place to get a first impression.

As for every highly configurable system, no configuration is the same and everybody needs to find what fits best. Keep in mind that this is no tutorial with exact and precise needed steps, but more a direction sign, showing you a possible path.XFCE, KDE and workspaces

As you might saw in my previous blog post, this year I also started using Neovim. At that time, I was still using KDE Plasma 5 and I loved it. I used a 3x3 workspace grid, I brought over from XFCE and had specific programs always in the same workspace.

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