Wayfire-dots

Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor Warning: This installation guide is for my future self. Some steps might not be completed.

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Details

Wayfire is a 3D wayland compositor
Pixdecor Decorator plugin for wayfire, pixdecor features antialiased rounded corners with shadows and optional animated effects.
Ironbar A customisable and feature-rich GTK bar for wlroots compositors, written in Rust.
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
Caskaydiacove nerd font

Workflow

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Install steps

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

Dependencies for Archlinux

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

Install the latest Wayfire with the scripts

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

Install Pixdecor

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

Configuration

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

Running

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

Follow focus and inactive-alpha

-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

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