A modular and extensible wayland compositor

wayfire wayland wayland-compositor window-manager
6 Open Issues Need Help Last updated: Sep 13, 2025

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A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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#wayfire#wayland#wayland-compositor#window-manager
enhancement easy good first issue

A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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#wayfire#wayland#wayland-compositor#window-manager
bug help wanted needs information

A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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#wayfire#wayland#wayland-compositor#window-manager

AI Summary: The task is to debug and resolve performance issues in Wayfire, a Wayland compositor, specifically addressing sluggishness observed in debug builds with ASAN_OPTIONS enabled. The issue manifests as significant lag in mouse event processing, indicated by numerous error messages from libinput reporting event processing delays. The solution likely involves optimizing Wayfire's code to reduce overhead during debug builds with ASAN enabled.

Complexity: 4/5
bug help wanted low-priority

A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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#wayfire#wayland#wayland-compositor#window-manager

AI Summary: Investigate and fix a regression in the Wayfire compositor's cube plugin where the top/bottom rotation using the mouse is inverted. The fix should restore the previous, more intuitive behavior where moving the mouse up shows the bottom of the cube and vice-versa.

Complexity: 3/5
bug easy good first issue PRs-welcome

A modular and extensible wayland compositor

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#wayfire#wayland#wayland-compositor#window-manager

AI Summary: The task is to improve the logging messages within the Wayfire compositor when GLES2 plugins are used with a Vulkan renderer. The current error messages are inconsistent and need to be standardized using a provided template to clearly indicate the plugin name, required renderer (GLES2), and the current renderer (Vulkan).

Complexity: 2/5
enhancement easy good first issue PRs-welcome

A modular and extensible wayland compositor

C++
#wayfire#wayland#wayland-compositor#window-manager