I migrated from vanilla Arch Linux and Endeavour OS, after a pink screen bug I could not solve, now I am using Manjaro Sway Edition, maintained by @boredland and @simonb.
As I wanted to fully customise my Sway and Waybar, I worked a lot on editing, modifying and readjusting the user files, commented all files included by Sway’s and Waybar’s system files. I copied the whole files and folders from /etc/sway to ~/.config/sway, then modified all. Everything worked, except the Manjaro icon (to open the menu) and help icon because the definitions file has variables as:
set $share_dir /usr/share/sway
set $config_dir /etc/sway
set $user_config_dir $HOME/.config/sway/
set $theme_dir $share_dir/themes
set $script_dir $share_dir/scripts
set $term kitty
set $term_float_portrait $term --name=floating_shell_portrait --exec
set $term_float_landscape $term --name=floating_shell_landscape --exec
set $menu exec $term_float_portrait sway-launcher-desktop
set $locking swaylock --daemonize --config $theme/swaylock
set $pulseaudio $term_float_landscape pulsemixer
set $help $term_float_landscape "man $user_config_dir/help.man"
set $onscreen_bar bash $script_dir/wob.sh
These variables can’t be exported or sourced by Sway. It is why Waybar config searched and did not find the variables. I tried to set #!/bin/bash or #!/bin.zsh at the start of the definitions file, but they can’t be exported or sourced by Sway. If I uncommented all these Sway system files, everything would work, but Sway prevents me from overwriting the system files with user files and limits me to system customisation files, then I want a full customisation.
It worked, but I could not touch the Manjaro and help icons in the menu bar.
It broke my Sway.
But it turned that it was Kitty, because the scripts of icons of Manjaro and help in the menu bar depend on Termite, instead of Kitty.
I changed variable from $term to termite, while I keep $term for my favourite terminal. Only $HOME does not work, but your ~ worked.
The Manjaro Sway Edition maintainers should inform the users that, if they want to use Kitty or another terminal as a new default and favourite terminal instead of Termite, they have to change the variable, so the icons of Manjaro and help would work.
When I pressed $mod + Shift + Ctrl + Return, Rofi open and showed all the applications, but I set Kitty, then I pressed $mod + Shift + Return, it opens Rofi instead of Kitty. I also pressed $mod + Return, it does not open Kitty.
The scripts has the list of available terminals piped to it and rofi -modi drun -show drun is probably doing something else than listing piped list and outputing the selection.
