Wayland session using Wayfire for the MATE desktop
You need Wayfire installed to run this session, as the startup script and configuration file are Wayfire-specific. Autotools or Meson will install the files in the correct places.
The newest versions of mate-settings-daemon and mate-control-center provide wlrandr support in the display capplet and display m-s-d plugin, plus background and clipboard plugin support. We now run mate-settings-daemon in native wayland to support this. This REQUIRES mate-settings-daemon 1.29.1 or later to work. If older mate-settings-daemon is present instead, the subshell that starts/restarts mate-settings-daemon will waste CPU cycles in an endless loop.
Generally, Wayland compositors control more of the session than X11 window managers. Wayfire in Wayland handles much of what Marco, mate-session-manager, and mate-settings-daemon do in X11. Non-wayland supporting apps such as GTK2 apps run under Xwayland, these still benefit from having a running xsettings manager itself under xwayland
Report new bugs on GitHub. Please check for duplicates, especially for feature requests.
This is a simple and experimental MATE session using Wayfire, a Wayland compositor reimplementing much of the look and feel of Compiz.
- Display Managers: Tested and known to work under SDDM, should work with any Wayland-supporting display manager.
- Session Launcher: A script (
mate-wayland-components.sh) launches MATE programs inside Wayfire. This session cannot run simultaneously with an X11 session using dbus on another TTY. - Startup Configuration: First run copies
~/.config/wayfire.inito~/.config/mate/wayfire.ini, addsmate-wayland-components.shand disables the default Wayfire shell. A few other MATE defaults are also applied. - Components: Starts MATE components like Caja and Mate-panel without interfering with other parts of any existing Wayfire configuration
- GSettings: GNOME, not MATE, gsettings preferences apply for fonts and icon themes under Wayland. For XWayland apps, MATE settings are applied.
- GTK Options: Many options selectable in X11 are hardcoded in Wayland. For example, headerbars on dialogs clash with the MATE UI and can be fixed by installing GTK 3 with gtk3-classic patches.
Use dconf-editor to reset the GTK theme, icon theme, and fonts in org/gnome/desktop/interface. Apply preferences under both MATE and GNOME to theme Wayland and XWayland apps consistently.
A gsettings override file sets the MATE icon theme and Menta GTK theme, and turns off overlay scrolling on a new or default install.
We no longer replace wayfire's default CSD with SSD for native wayland windows as it looks far better than the default decorator and follows marco themes as now defined in the GTK theme quite well
The Wayfire Firedecor Plugin is no longer supported upstream The default decoration plugin is now used instead, but is only needed for xwayland windows
Wayfire Configuration Manager provides a GUI similar to CCSM for Compiz, allowing control over many options managed by the compositor in a Wayland session.
Do not set Application ID Mode in workarounds to anything other than it's default of "stock" as doing so will prevent mate-panel's window list from finding the application icons