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rouv

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Registered: 2025-04-02

Posts: 2

How to Transfer Manjaro Sway Configuration to Arch Linux

Hello everyone, I'm an amateur Linux enthusiast, I'm from China, and I got this post by translating it with DeepL.

I newly deployed Arch Linux on my machine, there is no graphical environment deployed yet, I want to deploy Sway wm.

I've tried Sway wm before, but I was always bothered by the more cumbersome landscaping and environment configuration compared to KDE. Some time ago I accidentally learned about the project Manjaro Sway, tried it out and felt good, so I want to migrate Manjaro Sway's configuration files and software environment to Arch, I want to ask the experienced people in the forums, do you have any suggestions for me on this idea? What would be the best way for me to proceed?

002445

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Registered: 2021-10-07

Posts: 38

Re: How to Transfer Manjaro Sway Configuration to Arch Linux

The sway configuration is located in

~/.config/sway/config

Copying this file from the manjaro installation to your arch installation should be everything needed to configure Sway. However there may be more items you may think are part of sway because they are included in the manjaro sway installaton. Like icons, fonts, applications. So if you are missing anything you would need to provide what you are missing and maybe more help can be given to complete the migration.

zeround

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Registered: 2025-08-20

Posts: 2

Re: How to Transfer Manjaro Sway Configuration to Arch Linux

you will still have to copy /etc/sway/*, and then solve dependencies.

I haven't figure out how to.

zeround

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Registered: 2025-08-20

Posts: 2

Re: How to Transfer Manjaro Sway Configuration to Arch Linux

So, copy /etc/sway/*, $HOME/.config/sway/*, $HOME/.config/waybar, and /usr/share/sway/*.
Remember to rename the configuration of waybar. Then install waybar, python-requests(for weather), and foot.