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Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. It is completely written in C. Since version 7 it uses the Meson Build system. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor.
Installation
$ dnf install weston weston-demo
The demo
subpackage provides the clients programs:
weston-calibrator
,weston-clickdot
,weston-cliptest
,weston-confine
,weston-dnd
,weston-editor
,weston-eventdemo
,weston-flower
,weston-fullscreen
,weston-image
, ...
Configuration
Weston is configured on a local level with the ~/.config/weston.ini
file.
[keyboard] keymap_layout=de [shell] #panel-position=left #clock-format=none panel-color=0xff00ff00 #binding-modifier=alt ## button to quit session [launcher] icon=/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/24x24/actions/system-shutdown.png path=/home/<my_username>/bin/weston-quit ## button for weston terminal [launcher] #icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/apps/utilities-terminal.png icon=/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/24x24/apps/utilities-terminal.png path=/usr/bin/weston-terminal ## button for gnome terminal [launcher] #icon=/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/24x24/apps/utilities-terminal.png icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/apps/utilities-terminal.png path=/usr/bin/gnome-terminal ## button for firefox [launcher] icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firefox.png path=/usr/bin/firefox-wayland ## button for thunderbird [launcher] icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/thunderbird.png path=/home/<my_username>/bin/thunderbird-wayland
For leaving the weston session the ~/bin/weston-quit
file has this content:
#!/bin/bash JID=`ps ax | grep gdm-wayland-session | head -1 | awk '{print $1}'` kill -9 $JID
![](/w/uploads/thumb/9/9c/Weston_DE.png/300px-Weston_DE.png)