Wayfire - A WM 3D Composer (Installation on Arch Linux)

Wayfire is a 3D Wayland composer, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. Its goal is to create a customizable, extensible and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

Installation

Before Install Yay via AUR: How to Install AUR and YAY packages on Arch Linux
Install Wayfire

yay -S wayfire

Install Alacrity

sudo pacman -S alacrity

Copy wayfire.ini to ~/.config wayfire.ini
Log out (Super + shift + q) and choose Wayfire

Basic shortcut keys

Super + Enter - Opens the terminal (Alacrity)
Super + q - Close a window
Ctrl + Alt + Backspace - Off

Configuration

Open the file: ~/.config/wayfire.ini
Uncomment the lines that start with # [input] and # xkb_layout = us, fr
Replace: us, fr with only br Leave it like this:

[input]
xkb_layout = us

Install Wofi with Yay:

yay -S wofi

Open the Wofi dmenu style

wofi --dmenu

Theme very basic!

Open the Wofi drun style:

wofi --show=drun

Or just run that is very minimalist (I recommend).

Choose the mode you want and include it in your wayfire.ini

vim ~/.config/wayfire.ini
# search line command_laucher
command_laucher = wofi --show=drun

Open Wofi with the shortcut key: Super + shift + enter
Customize Wofi colors with CSS
Create the file/directory and open it

mkdir -p ~/.config/wofi
vim .config/wofi/config

Enter these initial sample colors

window {
  color: #A9B1BD;
  background-color: #2D3037;
  }

  #inner-box {
  margin: 5px;
  border: 2px solid #2D3037;
  background-color: #2D3037;
}

For more information click here

Indicate the style path to the command in the: ~/.config/wayfire.ini: command_laucher = wofi --show=drun --style ~/.config/wofi/config

Firefox

If you have Firefox installed and are unable to open, configure the Firefox opening file as follows:

Open the file:

sudo vim $(which firefox)

Add the line with this content: export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND = 1 and leave it like this:

#!/bin/sh
export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
exec /usr/bin/firefox-bin "$@"

Add background and panel Install the wf-shell with Yay

yay -S wf-shell

The Panel and the background will start automatically.

If you want to change the background, create a file: ~/.config/wf-shell.ini and set [background] and image = /home/YOUR_USER/path/to/image.jpg, example:

vim ~/.config/wf-shell.ini

[background]
image = /home/YOUR_USER/path/to/image.jpg

Do not use a shortcut: ~/image.jpg. If you want a complete example with pre-defined settings and explanations such as comments in the file itself, download the file: wf-shell.ini.example

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WayfireWM/wf-shell/master/wf-shell.ini.example -o ~/.config/wf-shell.ini

If you want to take a screenshot

Use grim

sudo pacman -S grim

Example of use: grim screenshot.png

More shortcut keys

Alt + Tab - Holding, navigate through the open windows with minified visuals;
Alt + Esc - Holding, displays the bottom window forward with transparency;
Super + → - Moves the window to the right vertical;
Super + ← - Moves the window to the left vertical;
Super + ↑ - Moves the window to full screen;
Super + ↓ - Moves the window to the last position;
Super Only, shows each of the 9 desktops with their respective windows.
Super + Ctrl + → ← ↓ ↑ - Moves the window sideways and down/up with “sliding”;

And more

Point to the corner of a window with the mouse, when the resize icon appears, click and hold moving and choosing as you wish.
To enable easier logout, install wlogout:

yay -S wlogout

Plugins

To activate a plugin add to wayfire.ini, example adding Cube. Enter the name of the plugin and use activate and choose a key combination to start it

[cube]
activate = <super> <alt> BTN_LEFT

I made a video that shows all the procedures mentioned above. Remembering that the video is in Brazilian Portuguese, however, the most important thing is to see the commands that are universal.