Fedora Sway workstation

Target

• Native Fedora 44 on x86_64
• Sway with SDDM, Waybar, PipeWire, printing, SSH, and NetworkManager
• Faroese keyboard layout, Danish regional formats, and Atlantic/Faroe time
• Foot as the terminal, opening the persistent tmux session
• Zen as the default browser, installed from Zen's official release tarball
• Development tools, formatters, and Fedora-packaged language servers from NixOS

Run

Install Ansible as the normal desktop user:

sudo dnf install -y ansible
git clone https://codeberg.org/bartal-lsn/fedora-provisioning.git
cd fedora-provisioning
ansible-playbook setup.yml -K

Desktop keys

Key	Action
Super+t	Foot attached to tmux session main
Super+b	Zen Browser
Super+d	Rofi application launcher
Super+q	Close window
Super+h/j/k/l	Move focus
Super+Shift+h/j/k/l	Move window
Super+1..0	Switch workspace
Super+Shift+1..0	Move window to workspace
Super+f	Toggle fullscreen
Super+Shift+Space	Toggle floating
Super+-	Show scratchpad
Super+Shift+-	Move window to scratchpad

Optional behavior

The main switches live near the top of vars.yml:

• upgrade_system: upgrade packages before provisioning
• install_virtualization: install Fedora's libvirt virtualization group
• install_sqlcmd: retain the Fedora repository's existing SQL Server CLI
• install_jdtls: install Java's JDT LS directly from Eclipse, without Mason

Re-running

The playbook is designed to be repeatable. Zen, Bun, Rust, Starship, npm tools, services, and configuration files are checked before changes are made. Zen handles browser updates itself after the initial binary installation.