Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor

• This guide is for Archlinux and it doesn't provide any installer. Some steps might not be completed.

• For more information, please refer to the Wayfire wiki Wayfire wiki

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• Wayfire is a 3D wayland compositor
• Pixdecor Decorator plugin for wayfire, pixdecor features antialiased rounded corners with shadows and optional animated effects.
• Waybar Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
• eww Widget on the left
• Mako notification
• Tokyonight-Dark command: ./install.sh -d ~/.local/share/themes -c dark -l --tweaks black
• Tela-circle-icon-theme or Aretha-Dark-Icons
• Fish shell Command line shell
• Startship prompt Customizable prompt
• Catnip A minimalistic and fast system fetch
• SwayOSD A OSD window for common actions like volume and capslock.
• Lite XL A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor
• Ulauncher Application launcher for Linux
• Grimshot-pv Script with added screenshot preview on the notification
• Xava Audio Visualizer
• ncmpcpp Terminal Music player
• Swappy A Wayland native snapshot and editor tool
• Clipse TUI-based clipboard manager
• Caskaydiacove nerd font
• To use the Tokyonight theme in Gnome Text Editor, place it in this folder ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-5/styles

• Swww Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland
• Waypaper GUI wallpaper setter for Wayland frontend for swww

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• Install Archlinux Gnome desktop (It is not necessary to install GNOME if you want a minimal desktop; you should look for an alternative method.)

sudo pacman -S freetype2 glm libdrm libevdev libgl libinput libjpeg libpng libxkbcommon libxml2 pixman wayland-protocols wlroots meson cmake doctest doxygen nlohmann-json libnotify base-devel pkg-config autoconf gobject-introspection gtk-layer-shell scour libdbusmenu-gtk3 gtkmm3 glib2-devel boost

git clone https://github.com/WayfireWM/wf-install
cd wf-install
./install.sh --prefix /opt/wayfire --stream master

git clone https://github.com/soreau/pixdecor.git
cd pixdecor
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/wayfire/lib/pkgconfig meson setup build --prefix=/opt/wayfire
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install

• Edit $HOME/.config/wayfire.ini
• Edit $HOME/.config/wf-shell.ini

• Log out and select Wayfire in GNOME Display Manager (GDM) then log back in.

All modules use the Wayfire IPC interface, and all Python scripts are located in the .config/ipc-scripts folder.

• The script workspace_update_style_waybar.py is used to highlight the currently active workspace in Waybar.

• What it does: it updates the value of "custom-work" in the file ~/.config/waybar/workspace_wayfire_now.css at line 22.

• If you change workspace_wayfire_now.css, don’t forget to also update the values in workspace_update_style_waybar.py at lines 29, 34, and 40. (Note: Python starts counting from 0, not 1.)

-Create the file and set environment variable ~/.config/environment.d/environment.conf

WAYFIRE_SOCKET=/tmp/wayfire-wayland-1.socket

• Copy the script from here inactive-alpha.py and wayfire_socket.py to the same directory somewhere.
• Example ~/.config/ipc-scripts/*.py
• Edit and add to $HOME/.config/wayfire.ini the following two line
• plugins = ipc ipc-rules follow-focus (ipc must be first)
• [autostart] launcher = ~/.config/ipc-scripts/inactive-alpha.py