ls /usr/bin/swaydesk-*Apps

Besides the bar, the dock and the popups, Swaydesk comes with a few apps of its own. They all show up in the app grid (Super).

Desktop Theme

Picks the GTK theme, the icons and the accent color, and applies them all at once: to the bar, the dock, the popups, the window borders, and GTK 3, GTK 4 and libadwaita apps. The choice is saved in ~/.config/sway-desktop/config.toml. From a terminal, swaydesk-theme does the same. See configuration.

Screenshot

Opens the screenshot panel (Super+Shift+E): a region, the whole screen or a window, with an optional delay. The image goes to the clipboard and to ~/Pictures/Screenshots. With Gradia installed, the capture can open in it to crop, annotate and highlight. To capture without the panel, use Print and its variations in the shortcuts.

Screen Recording

Opens the recording panel (Super+Shift+R): a region, the whole screen or a window, with the system sound, the microphone or no audio. While recording, a ● on the bar shows it is running; click it, or press the same shortcut, to stop. The video goes to ~/Videos/Screencasts.

Displays coming soon

Arranges your monitors: position, resolution, scale and rotation, and which monitor each workspace lives on. Until it arrives, nwg-displays does the same, and the session already reads what it saves.

Help coming soon

Shows the session’s keyboard shortcuts, with search. The descriptions come from the Sway configuration itself, so a shortcut you add shows up there too.

Wallpaper of the day

When you log in, Swaydesk downloads Bing’s image of the day and sets it as the wallpaper. Without a network, the last downloaded image stays.

Apps that come along