Newbie Sway questions

[AchieveDismal]

I am just returning to using desktop Linux after a couple of years of using MacOS and I am giving Manjaro Sway Edition a try. So far I am really enjoying it and I have everything working great - but I have a few newbie questions about tweaks I would like to make:

• Is there any way to improve font rendering? Fonts are quite thin looking. I would like to change the font to Inter and have the fonts look a little thicker - similar to other distros / desktop environments.
• Are there any choices for simple visual alt-tab interface? Currently, alt tab doesn’t do anything. Ideally an alt tab UI similar to GNOME would be nice, but I would probably be happy with whatever.
• How do I change the location of the weather in the waybar?

Thanks in advance.

[enrico20026]

@AchieveDismal

Are there any choices for simple visual alt-tab interface? Currently, alt tab doesn’t do anything. Ideally an alt tab UI similar to GNOME would be nice, but I would probably be happy with whatever.

you can try:

Scratchpad:

# Sway has a "scratchpad", which is a bag of holding for windows.
# You can send windows there and get them back later.

# Move the currently focused window to the scratchpad
bindsym $mod+Shift+minus move scratchpad

# Show the next scratchpad window or hide the focused scratchpad window.
# If there are multiple scratchpad windows, this command cycles through them.
bindsym $mod+minus scratchpad show

Then you can

Toggle the current focus between tiling and floating mode

bindsym $mod+Shift+space floating toggle

[appelgriebsch]

@AchieveDismal

Is there any way to improve font rendering? Fonts are quite thin looking. I would like to change the font to Inter and have the fonts look a little thicker - similar to other distros / desktop environments.

Font settings have to be tweaked on multiple locations… for GTK/GNOME apps, for QT/KDE apps as well as for the terminal. The Manjaro Sway edition tries to simplifies this by using themes… check out the /etc/sway/themes folder for details.

@AchieveDismal

Are there any choices for simple visual alt-tab interface? Currently, alt tab doesn’t do anything. Ideally an alt tab UI similar to GNOME would be nice, but I would probably be happy with whatever.

Out of the box there is the window selector, which you can activate by pressing Super+Shift+Space. It will show a list of open windows on the different workspaces and allows you to choose one to jump to it…

@AchieveDismal

How do I change the location of the weather in the waybar?

In the Manjaro ARM Sway edition there is no weather widget, and you may refer to this instead: GitHub - manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway: manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥. They seem to have a dedicated discussion board for issues. But my guess is that you have to move it in your waybar config, which you can found in $HOME/.config/waybar/config.