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Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots.

It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

· Wayfire demos

Dependencies

• Cairo
• FreeType
• GLM
• libdrm
• libevdev
• libGL
• libinput
• libjpeg
• libpng
• libxkbcommon
• libxml2
• Pixman
• pkg-config
• Wayland
• wayland-protocols
• wf-config
• wlroots

Shell (optional)

• wf-shell

Login Provider (optional)

• systemd or
• elogind

XWayland Support (optional)

• xcb
• xcb-errors
• xcb-composite
• xcb-render
• xcb-xfixes
• xcb-icccm

X11 Backend (optional)

• xcb
• x11-xcb
• xcb-xinput
• xcb-xfixes

Installation

meson build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Arch Linux

wayfire and wayfire-git are available in the AUR.

pacman -S wayfire

Exherbo

cave resolve -x wayfire

Fedora

dnf install wayfire

FreeBSD

pkg install wayfire

NixOS

See nixpkgs-wayland.

Ubuntu

See the build instructions from @soreau.

Void

xbps-install -S wayfire

Configuration

Copy wayfire.ini to ~/.config/wayfire.ini. Before running Wayfire, you may want to change the command to start a terminal. See the Configuration document for information on the options.

Running

Run wayfire from a TTY, or via a Wayland-compatible login manager.