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Window manager

Wayfire is a lightweight, functional and good looking wayland window manager which should have been installed during setup. Although normally Wayfire can be configured with the Wayfire Config Manager or through .config/wayfire.ini it now has to be done with the appropiate home-manager config file.

Most applications which have to be auto started should already have been through runit which gets started upon logging into the Wayfire session. These "services" are located in ~/.service and can be managed with the sv command.

Quick overview

Here is an overview of a few of the services and applications which have been installed through home-manager:

Applications

  • Fuzzel, a fast and versatile application launcher (started with <super> KEY_SPACE).

  • Nemo, an feature rich file manager developed for the Cinnamon desktop (started with <super> KEY_E).

  • File-roller, an archive manager from Gnome which intergrates well with Nemo.

  • Evince, a simple PDF viewer.

  • Pavu-control, a volume controller. Although designed for PulseAudio also works well with Pipewire.

  • Firefox, a popular open-source web-browser.

Foreground services

  • Waybar, a taskbar. it's wayland native and comes with most required functionality including a tray on which a few applets like the Bluetooth manager, USB manager and Network manager can reside.

  • WF-background, a simple wallpaper daemon.

  • SwayNC, a notification daemon and center (started with <super> KEY_TAB). It's very customisable and has a lot of features like Power Menus and Music players.

  • Pa-notify, an audio level notifier. It simply displays the current audio level through a notification.

Background services

  • Pipewire, the audio backend. It's secure and relatively simple. It's is also responsible for screen-sharing in conjunction with XDPW. A few rights have to be given to the user to allow

  • Kanshi, the display daemon.

  • Playerctld, a media control daemon. Required for things like the play-pause, next, previous buttons to function.

  • XDG-desktop-portal-wlroots, a daemon which gives applications access to things like file-manager's and screen-sharing.

Most services can be configured in their appropriate home-manager configuration file.