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/code>, 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
