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🎨 Look & Feel

This Wayfire config uses a minimalist, grey aesthetic with the "Star" icon theme, while leveraging Wayfire's powerful compositor effects.

General Appearance

  • Decoration: Client-side decorations preferred.
  • Workspaces: 3x3 Grid (9 total workspaces).
  • Icon Theme: Star (Used specifically for the bottom Waybar taskbar dock).

Wayfire Effects

Wayfire is unique among Wayland compositors for its rich visual plugins. This configuration enables: - Animate: Smooth open/close animations for windows. - Cube: Rotate your workspace rows as a 3D cube. - Expo: Zoom out to see all 9 workspaces at a glance. - Fisheye: Magnify the area around your cursor. - Wobbly: Windows wobble realistically when moved. - Wrot: Manually rotate windows with the mouse. - Zoom: Magnify the entire desktop. - Alpha: Adjust window opacity on the fly.

Window Rules

Window rules can be configured in wayfire.ini under the [window-rules] section to automatically maximize, float, or set properties for specific applications.

Autostart

Applications are spawned automatically via the [autostart] section in wayfire.ini: - Wallpaper: swaybg - Waybar: Launches both the Top bar and the Bottom dock. - Network: nm-applet - Notifications: swaync