Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

v0.8.1 is a bug-fix release with a few new features. Notable changes:

• Compatible with wlroots 0.17.x releases and wf-config 0.8.x

• Support for multiple new protocols:

  • shortcuts-inhibit-v1 (shotcuts-inhibit plugin, #1969)
  • fractional-scale-v1
  • wlr_drm_lease_v1 for non-desktop outputs
  • input-method-v1 for better fcitx5 support (#2172).

• Wayfire's IPC has been extended with many new signals and commands:

  • Has methods to get view, output and workspace (and workspace-set) information
  • Signals for view-mapped, unmapped, plugin-activation-state-changed and several others.
  • More plugins can be activated via the IPC, check the full commit log for details.

• Wayfire supports SIGINT, SIGTERM for graceful shutdown (#2056, #2197)

• Oswitch has binding to switch in the other direction (#2072)

• Many crashes and bugs were fixed, including regressions in the 0.8.0 release.