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

These are the dependencies needed for building Wayfire.

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

These are the dependencies needed for building wlroots, and should be installed before building it. They are relevant for cases when the system doesn't have a version of wlroots installed.

• systemd or
• elogind or
• seatd

• xcb
• xcb-composite
• xcb-render
• xcb-xfixes

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

The easiest way to install Wayfire, wf-shell and WCM to get a functional desktop is to use the install scripts.

Alternatively, you can build from source:

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

Note: wf-config and wlroots can be built as submodules, by specifying -Duse_system_wfconfig=disabled and -Duse_system_wlroots=disabled options to meson. This is the default if they are not present on your system.

Installing wf-shell is recommended for a complete experience.

wayfire and wayfire-git are available in the AUR.

yay -S wayfire

cave resolve -x wayfire

dnf install wayfire

Install the latest release and recommended addons with

pkg install wayfire wayfire-plugins-extra wf-shell wcm

Install the latest release with

emerge --ask --verbose wayfire

and to use the live version

emerge --ask --verbose "=gui-wm/wayfire-9999"

See nixpkgs-wayland.

See the build instructions from @soreau.

xbps-install -S wayfire

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.

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