Guile Swayer

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Guile Swayer

I am an Emacs user and previously used StumpWM, an X11 window manager written in Common Lisp. I believe window managers should be scriptable because the level of workflow customization required by users often exceeds what can be achieved with simple configuration parameters (see my workflow below for a clearer understanding of why this is the case). Unfortunately, Sway/i3 lacks a straightforward programmable interface for customization. This project provides complete control over Sway/i3 using Guile!

Why Sway?

I had to migrate to Wayland at some point. Being a big fan of StumpWM, I tried to replicate a similar environment in one of the Wayland window managers. I made some progress with hyprland using a set of Guile bindings I developed called hypripc, but I found that Hyprland isn't as stable as Sway.

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Guile Swayer

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