Install Sway without sudo privilege

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  • json-c

    https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/

  • git clone https://github.com/json-c/json-c mkdir json-c-build cd json-c-build cmake ../json-c make And link json-c-build folder to sway's meson build file.

  • nix-user-chroot

    Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92]

  • You could try nix-user-chroot to install Nix and get Sway (and other stuff) that way - no need to compile it yourself.

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