Budgie on wayfire
I’ve now packaged a new budgie session that utilises wayfire as the window manager (compositor). This is available for both UB 26.04 and UB 26.10
It is available in our wayland-test PPA - the package is called “budgie-wayfire-session”
After installing - reboot and change the session on the logon screen “budgie-desktop (wayfire)”
notes
This is work in progress - so I’m particularly interested in looking at existing budgie capabilities invoked via budgie-desktop-settings and budgie-control-center and seeing that there is suitable coverage via wayfire - treat this as “alpha testing”
Configuration of wayfire is via its config file via ~/.config/budgie-desktop/wayfire.
On first logon this config is copied from /usr/share/budgie-desktop/wayfire - so you can always copy over from the template if you mess up the local wayfire config.
Local changes to the config file often apply immediately when you save the config file.
There is a utility called wcm installed using the package wcm - use with care. If often fills the config file with lots of defaults - so the config file will look very messy quite quickly. But it is an easy way to try manual changes if the budgie part isn’t working as you expect.
The package wstroke will provide gesture support - once installed this plugin will appear in WCM - more details here
The package wayfire-plugin-winshadows provides stylish shadows for windows
I have also added to the PPA the package wayfire-plugins-extra which provides for a number of additional plugins including support for sloppy focus/mouse focus modes.