--- title: Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin | daily.dev description: A small plugin for Quickshell adds a Sway window manager modes indicator, showing the currently active Sway mode directly in the status bar. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/quickshell-sway-modes-plugin-9dkxzutdw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin | daily.dev og:description: A small plugin for Quickshell adds a Sway window manager modes indicator, showing the currently active Sway mode directly in the status bar. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/quickshell-sway-modes-plugin-9dkxzutdw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9DkXzUtDw.png og:image:alt: Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin **[Alexandre Pascoal](https://daily.dev/sources/6cf819e18e5a44b4ab355e39b48a503c)** · [@alexandrepascoal](https://daily.dev/alexandrepascoal) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A small plugin for Quickshell adds a Sway window manager modes indicator, showing the currently active Sway mode directly in the status bar. ## Content Sway Modes Plugin displays the current active mode in the bar. [https://alexandrepasc.github.io/software-field-notes/sway-modes-qml-plugin](https://alexandrepasc.github.io/software-field-notes/sway-modes-qml-plugin) #sway #quickshell #qml --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#qml](https://daily.dev/tags/qml) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/quickshell-sway-modes-plugin-9dkxzutdw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/quickshell-sway-modes-plugin-9dkxzutdw","headline":"Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin","text":"A small plugin for Quickshell adds a Sway window manager modes indicator, showing the currently active Sway mode directly in the status bar.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/quickshell-sway-modes-plugin-9dkxzutdw","datePublished":"2026-08-31T14:07:03.036Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T14:07:15.956Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandre Pascoal","url":"https://daily.dev/alexandrepascoal","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AAuE7mClNVef64RYzNnrkDqF-C8pQNltzJQVQ-nJuSqwKw=s100","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":110}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--iXxEq1n---/f_auto/v1788185223/posts/9DkXzUtDw?_a=BAMAMicg0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/6cf819e18e5a44b4ab355e39b48a503c","name":"Alexandre Pascoal"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alexandre Pascoal","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/6cf819e18e5a44b4ab355e39b48a503c"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin"}]} ```