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Add to SafariWhen comparing Hyprland vs Wayfire, the Slant community recommends Wayfire for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Wayfire is ranked 2nd while Hyprland is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Wayfire is:
The usage of a plugin system allows for a lot of customisability.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Smooth
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Pro Uses wlroots
The best Wayland compositor library built on standards.
Pro Plugins
Has a plugin system.
Pro Beautiful
Pro Easy to customize
Has a nice wiki which makes customizing it very easy.
Pro Plugin approach
The usage of a plugin system allows for a lot of customisability.
Pro Nice blur feature
The blur plugin makes this compositor look nice.
Pro Fastest compositor with earth.google.com/web
Pro Optional tiling
Wayfire has a basic tiling extension built in, and more advanced third party plugins like this one are available.
Cons
Con Early development stages
It has a few bugs and missing features.
Con Difficult setup
It has a lot of dependencies which is difficult to find and build in Debian. Also most dependencies are not found in the system repository.
Con Less configurable compared to x11 counterparts
The borders and title bars are less customizable. Outside colour change nothing else is possible. Plugin approach is a plus but as of now, no known plugin is available to change the appearance of window decoration. Firedecor is a good option but seems deprecated as it doesn't match the current Wayfire version.
Con Dependency issues
Hard to match builds with correct wlroots version. Building is difficult because wlroots version is either greater or lesser than the required version.
Con Plugins require working wayfire to build but with each update, the plugin becomes incompatible and unbuildable
The case with firedecor.
Con Cut/paste not reliable
Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But most of the time not.
