Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Wayfire 0.9.0 announcement 2024-08-23
Hello everyone! I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.9.0. In the (relatively) long time since the last announcement, the focus has been on continually improving the stability of Wayfire and its plugins after the big API refactor which was finished last year. Nonetheless, there are still many cool additions in this latest release. In the following I will attempt a summary of the important changes and will go into more detail on one of Wayfire’s newest and most powerful features: the IPC socket.
Wayfire 0.8.0 announcement 2023-10-07
Hello everyone! It has been nearly three years since I last wrote to this blog. Fortunately, that does not mean Wayfire’s development has stopped! Quite the opposite, in fact I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.8.0. There have been many changes and plugin API breakages since the Wayfire 0.7.x series, so I will try to summarize the important changes in the following paragraphs.
Wayfire 0.7.0 announcement 2021-01-29
Hello everyone! Today is the day that Wayfire 0.7.0 was released. There have been quite a few exciting changes since the last time I wrote here. Check all the new features and (unfortunately) the few breaking changes below:
Writing Wayfire plugins (Part 2) 2020-10-28
Hello everyone, this is the next blog in the series about writing Wayfire plugins. Again, I will be writing a custom plugin and explaining the steps along the way. This time however the focus will be on the rendering parts of Wayfire.
Wayfire 0.5.0 announcement 2020-08-04
I am pleased to announce the release of Wayfire 0.5.0. There have been 247 commits since the last release. Here are some highlights:
Writing Wayfire plugins (Part 1) 2020-04-10
If someone were to ask me what is the greatest aspect of Wayfire, then this would undoubtedly be its customizability and modularity. There are a ton of options you can tweak to your liking. However, options are rarely enough if you want to make your desktop truly your own. And this is why Wayfire uses a plugin architecture.
Wayfire 0.4.0 is here! 2020-03-21
I am pleased to announce the next release of Wayfire. As usual, there has been a lot of work and many bug fixes. Here is a summary of the important changes.
Wayfire 0.3 2019-10-07
It has been a relatively long time since the last time I have written in this blog. That doesn’t mean work on Wayfire has stopped! In fact, I’m happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.3. There are quite a few improvements, which I’d like to share.
X11 -> WLC -> libweston -> wlroots: how the current Wayfire came to be 2019-02-24
Wayfire is a project which has had 4 versions and has been rewritten 3 times. In this blog post I’ll try to outline why those rewrites were necessary.
Introduction to Wayfire 2019-01-13
Hello all, I’ve recently been spending a lot of time developing Wayfire, so with the help of Drew DeVault (a huge thanks for setting up the blog) I decided to start telling more about it.