Wayfire Is A New Wayland Compositor That Supports Desktop Cube, Expo & Other Plugins

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    Wayfire Is A New Wayland Compositor That Supports Desktop Cube, Expo & Other Plugins

    Phoronix: Wayfire Is A New Wayland Compositor That Supports Desktop Cube, Expo & Other Plugins

    Wayfire is a new independent Wayland compositor project built atop libweston. Wayfire supports compositor plug-ins to offer a desktop cube and more, so you can relive the old days when having a spinning desktop cube was all the rage in the early days of Compiz/Beryl...

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  • ThanosApostolou
    Phoronix Member
    • Jun 2017
    • 71

    #2
    Hmmm an independent wayland compositor built on libweston... Maybe that's the perfect opportunity for MATE and Xfce to base their future wayland session on this, and maybe even work together on creating some common apps like screenshot utility or whatever need specific compositor's APIs in order to work with Wayland. I don't know, just an opinion...

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    • nazar-pc
      Phoronix Member
      • Jan 2014
      • 108

      #3
      Looks promising. Not interested in 3D effects anymore, but looking forward to some independent compositor when Wayland will be on par with X11 for everyday use. I'm currently on Qtile+Compton.

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      • lucrus
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2013
        • 453

        #4
        The cube is back! Even at the time I never understood who the hell would want to use a cube as a desktop...

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        • boxie
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2013
          • 1932

          #5
          Originally posted by lucrus View Post
          The cube is back! Even at the time I never understood who the hell would want to use a cube as a desktop...
          Wobbly windows though, they are still awesome

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          • M@GOid
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2014
            • 2083

            #6
            Originally posted by lucrus View Post
            The cube is back! Even at the time I never understood who the hell would want to use a cube as a desktop...
            That is animation for when you change from one virtual desktop to another. Since not everybody uses virtual desktops, is not a thing you see everyday.

            KDE's Kwin still offer the cube animation as a option for virtual desktop changes.

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            • Guest

              #7
              Yet another C/C++ implementation based on libweston... I'd be much more interested in a Rust, Go or Swift based Wayland compositor.

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              • Vistaus
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2013
                • 5112

                #8
                Originally posted by boxie View Post

                Wobbly windows though, they are still awesome
                KDE also supports wobbly windows.

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                • Vistaus
                  Senior Member
                  • Jul 2013
                  • 5112

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ThanosApostolou View Post
                  Hmmm an independent wayland compositor built on libweston... Maybe that's the perfect opportunity for MATE and Xfce to base their future wayland session on this, and maybe even work together on creating some common apps like screenshot utility or whatever need specific compositor's APIs in order to work with Wayland. I don't know, just an opinion...
                  Nah, people are screaming "MIR" so I don't think they will go with this but with MIR and some compositor for MIR.

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                  • bregma
                    Senior Member
                    • Feb 2014
                    • 392

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Vistaus View Post

                    Nah, people are screaming "MIR" so I don't think they will go with this but with MIR and some compositor for MIR.
                    Man, you really missed the bus on that.

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