Sway on the uConsole (dotsony's config)
A Wayland tiling setup with dotsony's dotfiles, plus the CM5 notes: output DSI-2, Fn + right Alt as the modifier, Bookworm if Trixie's wlroots misbehaves.
What it takes
- Software only
- Config change
Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.
Details
dotsony's uConsole_sway_config (February 2024) is a dotbare-managed set of Sway, terminal and script configs for the official image, with an offer of prebuilt images if wanted; some applications still dislike Wayland. acelot's CM5 thread (October 2025) hit EGL and EDID errors on Trixie Lite from a libwlroots version clash; Sway worked on Bookworm, with the output renamed to DSI-2 in the config and the modifier bound to Fn + Alt_R rather than the left Alt.
selfawaresoup's question about using a gamepad button as the mod key ends in keyboard-firmware remapping or AntiMicroX, since Wayland tools do not see gamepad input.
Links
Open at Forum thread- GitHubRepository
- Forum: installing Sway on a CM5Forum
- Forum: gamepad button as mod keyForum
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