swayalt@0.1

An automatic alternating tile layout for Sway, written in Rust with love.

Note that while swayalt was designed for Sway, it is compatible with i3.

Usage

Run swayalt as a background process in your window manager configuration, or in a terminal to take it for a spin. There is no CLI or output - swayalt relies solely on the SWAYSOCK and I3SOCK environment variables.

Performance

swayalt has an extremely low memory profile (comparable to swaymsg), and uses two connections to the IPC socket to avoid continually spawning subprocesses. Therefore, its impact on your system should be negligible.

Caveats

• swayalt will attempt to spawn sway or i3 if neither of the socket environment variables are set. This is a flaw inherited from swayipc.
• swayalt may produce confusing errors if the socket does not exist or has incorrect permissions. This will be fixed in the future.

Credits

Thank you to @JayceFayne for authoring swayipc.
Thank you to the swaywm contributors for creating Sway.
Thank you to @megatank58 for verifying that swayalt runs on i3.