NAME¶

wayfire — modular and extensible wayland compositor

SYNOPSIS¶

wayfire [-c, --config config_file] [-B, --config-backend config_backend] [-d, --debug] [-D, --damage-debug] [-h, --help] [-R, --damage-renderer] [-v, --version]

DESCRIPTION¶

wayfire is a wayland compositor focusing on modularity and extensibility by providing a small core compositor implementation with all major functionality being provided by plugins. The default plugins provide 3D effects similar to compiz, such as 3D cube, wobbly windows, blur, fish eye, etc.

The optional flags are described as follows:

-c, --config config_file

Start wayfire with an alternative configuration file. The default configuration file is searched first in the ${WAYFIRE_CONFIG_FILE} environment variable, or paths ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/wayfire/wayfire.ini, ${HOME}/.config/wayfire/wayfire.ini, ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/wayfire.ini, ${HOME}/.config/wayfire.ini.

-B, --config-backend config_backend

Specify config backend to use.

-d, --debug

Enable debug logging.

-D, --damage-debug

Enable additional debug for damaged regions.

-h, --help

Print a short help message.

-R, --damage-renderer

Rerender damaged regions.

-v, --version

Print the version.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶

wayfire respects the following environment variables:

WAYFIRE_CONFIG_FILE

The config file to use.

WAYFIRE_PLUGIN_XML_PATH

A string of paths, separated by : , in which to look for plugin configuration files. By default wayfire looks for configuration files in /usr/share/wayfire/metadata and ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/wayfire/metadata.

WAYFIRE_PLUGIN_PATH

A string of paths, separated by : , in which to look for plugins. By default wayfire looks for plugins in /usr/lib64/wayfire and ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/wayfire/plugins.

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