SwayFX

SwayFX is Kira's second-choice desktop environment: a tiling Wayland compositor built on Sway, with added visual effects like blur, rounded corners, and shadows.

Installing

flux install kira-desktop-swayFX

This registers SwayFX as an available session at the greeter, alongside anything else you have installed.

Component stack

Role	Tool
Compositor	SwayFX
Status bar	eww
Launcher	fuzzel
Notifications	Mako
Lock screen	hyprlock
Terminal	foot
GUI file manager	PCManFM-Qt
Audio	pipewire and wireplumber
Screenshots	Flameshot

Configuration

SwayFX reads its configuration from ~/.config/sway/config, plain text and meant to be edited directly. Kira's defaults:

• Modifier key: Mod4 (the Super key).
• Gaps: 4px inner, 8px outer.
• Borders: 2px, no titlebar.
• Corner radius: 8px, with blur and shadow effects enabled.
• XWayland: enabled by default, for apps like Electron-based clients that have no other display server to fall back to.

Default keybindings

Keybindings are AZERTY-aware and largely dispatcher-based: most former direct-launch shortcuts now open a popup (calendar, control center, notifications, music, system monitor, power menu, launcher, keybind cheatsheet) rather than spawning an application directly, and only one popup can be open at a time.

Rather than duplicate a list that can drift out of sync, check the two sources of truth directly:

• Press the keybind cheatsheet popup shortcut from within a session for the full, current list.
• Read sway/config itself, plain text and meant to be read, see Configuration above for the path.

$mod refers to whatever modifier key is set in your config, Mod4 by default.

Where to go next

• Desktop Overview, for how SwayFX fits alongside Sleex.
• Sleex, the primary desktop.