MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for swaymsg-root [2]: Unneeded package from 2019, upstream repo gone (404 not found). Modern desktop environment / window manager components should not be run as root, and there are supported alternatives for elevating privileges on an as-needed basis. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/swaymsg-root/