
Essential Wayland Tools for a Fast and Stable Sway Setup (2025 Developer Edition)
The definitive list of essential Wayland-native tools for building a fast, stable, and developer-focused Sway setup in 2025.

The definitive list of essential Wayland-native tools for building a fast, stable, and developer-focused Sway setup in 2025.

A fully optimized Sway configuration guide for fast, stable, and minimal Wayland setups, including essential packages, environment variables, and a complete config file.

A deep performance optimization guide for Sway on Wayland using Intel integrated graphics with a dual Full HD monitor setup.
![A clear screenshot of the foot.ini configuration file, showing the [main], [csd], and [colors] sections with the Dracula theme and JetBrains Mono Nerd Font.](https://orioninsist.org/images/blog/2025/11/2025-11-08-optimized-foot-config-for-sway-wayland-watermarked.avif)
My complete, optimized foot.ini config for Sway/Wayland. Learn how to get the perfect minimalist terminal with JetBrains Mono, Dracula, and CSD disabled.

A deep dive into my Arch Linux + Sway keybindings. Learn my Mod4 strategy and how I use a custom shell script to launch web apps like ChatGPT as PWAs.

Fix flaky Sway keyboard layout switching for good. This guide details a robust fix using Mod4+space and swaymsg input type:keyboard for xkb_layout.