WayfireWM/wayfire

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A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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Forks: 237
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 104
Avg merge: 1h 43m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 5, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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104 open issues indexed

Server-side decorations stop responding to pointer input after drag-and-drop Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3131 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Opt-in logical seats for concurrent human + computer-use agents Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3129 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 7, 2026
wayfire-plugin meson libdir can be incorrect (Ubuntu 24.04) Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3124 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Distorted Windows on Rotated / Transformed Displays Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3122 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add `list-events` ipc method, similar to `list-methods` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3120 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Possible session-environment issue when starting Wayfire from a TTY Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3119 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Forward both cursor and preedit rectangles to IME to fix CJK candidate popup jumping Open

enhancement PRs-welcome waiting

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3115 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Translation-node: changing an offset can leave stale pixels Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3109 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
With the latest git build of wayfire, the window-rules doesn't work anymore, only alpha work. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3105 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Decoration plugin: Add title_align option Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3103 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Slightly blurry windows when resizing windows with simple-tile Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3102 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
xdg-shell: Send XDG_TOPLEVEL_STATE_RESIZING during interactive resize Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3101 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Several bugs/regressions that Qt apps reveal Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3100 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
title bar is rendered off to the side of the the app window Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3099 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Artifacts when using plugin vk-color-management Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3097 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
IPC breaks on the 9,223,372,036,854,775,808th workspace set Open

bug low-priority

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3059 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 2, 2026
XDG Desktop Portal introduced a breaking change for GTK4 apps Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3052 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2026
command: always + repeatable binding Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3030 · 2 reactions · Opened May 17, 2026
[feature request] Locking the zoom Open

easy enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3027 · 9 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
Crash under GPU load Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3018 · 24 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Lock screen crash message is vague Open

easy enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#3005 · 14 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2026
Documentation/notes for screensharing Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2992 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Gaming issue: weird pixels behavior Open

bug help wanted needs information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2987 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Add a helper to access config.h from public API headers Open

codebase easy good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2973 · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Desktop is visible through semi transparent lockscreen Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2961 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Wayfire is allowing the alpha value to be set higher than 1.0 Open

bug easy good first issue PRs-welcome

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2960 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Wayfire crashes when alpha value is missing in autogenerated rule Open

bug low-priority PRs-welcome

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2957 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2026
Crash on config reload during output layout reconfiguration Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2951 · Opened Jan 9, 2026
Improve the wiki debugging guide Open

enhancement low-priority

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2950 · Opened Jan 9, 2026
Impossible layer-shell surface caused segfault Open

bug needs information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2944 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Scale can cause a view to become stuck if moved and released in certain output regions Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2937 · Opened Dec 28, 2025
Port some of the openGL effects plugins to vulkan Open

enhancement low-priority PRs-welcome

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2931 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2025
transparent window Open

enhancement needs information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2923 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2025
Brave/Chromium window becomes larger after exiting fullscreen video Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2917 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2025
View disappears if it is made sticky when it's not on the current workspace Open

codebase easy enhancement PRs-welcome

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2910 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2025
Some log entries seem unclear in their purpose Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2887 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
All windows moved to workspace 1 after laptop suspend/resume cycle Open

bug core wlroots

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2882 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2025
Vulkan renderer uses more GPU and battery than GLES one Open

low-priority wlroots

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2878 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Scale bug with big titles Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2865 · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Downgrade IPC communication errors to warnings Open

easy PRs-welcome

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2857 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Wayfire wsets plugin random crash Open

bug PRs-welcome

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2842 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Performance Optimization and Vulkan Consideration for Blur Effect Open

enhancement help wanted PRs-welcome

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2817 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2025
Need to configure output with unstable names Open

enhancement PRs-welcome

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2766 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2025
Decoration plugin will crash wayfire with border size changes Open

bug low-priority PRs-welcome

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2750 · Opened Jul 23, 2025
drag and drop b/w virtual desktops and alt+tab both dont complete. Open

enhancement low-priority PRs-welcome

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2718 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2025
Provide a better way to let the user understand that setting options via IPC will make subsequent config file changes ineffective Open

enhancement idea low-priority

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2707 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2025
Add setting for enabling screen tearing Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2695 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2025
use wacom tablet as replacement for mouse Open

enhancement PRs-welcome

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2685 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2025
Extend Hotspot Functionality to Support Button Presses Open

enhancement help wanted low-priority PRs-welcome

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2650 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 13, 2025
Incorrect Behavior of Fullscreen Views During Cross-Monitor Drag-and-Drop Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WayfireWM/wayfire#2635 · 2 comments · Opened May 1, 2025

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