wayfire - Man Page

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.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.

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.

_WAYFIRE_SOCKET

Socket override to use to communicate with a specific wayfire instance using the IPC. Useful incase of multiple running instances of wayfire.

In addition, wayfire also sets the following environment variables:

WAYFIRE_SOCKET

Socket to use when communicating with wayfire.

WAYLAND_DISPLAY

Wayland display currently in effect.

CONFIG_FILE_ENV

Which config file is being used.

_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING

Needed for java based windows and it is set to 1.

DISPLAY

XCURSOR_SIZE

XCURSOR_THEME

Variables for use with legacy xwayland(1) windows.

xwayland(1)