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sway-desktop

Recipe card from the charly-selkies plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

sway-desktop – Base desktop composition (no display server)

Section titled “sway-desktop – Base desktop composition (no display server)”
Property Value
Candies (composition) pipewire, xdg-portal, wl-tools, wl-screenshot-grim, wl-overlay, wf-recorder, chrome-sway, xfce4-terminal, thunar, waybar, desktop-fonts, swaync, pavucontrol, tmux, asciinema, fastfetch
Install files none (pure composition)

Not used directly in boxes — use sway-desktop-vnc instead:

# charly.yml — VNC variant
sway-browser-vnc:
candy:
- sway-desktop-vnc

Use when the user asks about:

  • Desktop container composition architecture
  • Base desktop without display server
  • /charly-image:layer — candy authoring reference (charly.yml schema, task verbs, service declarations)
  • /charly-check:check — declarative testing (check: block, charly check box, charly check live)