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hhh

Hercule Poirot

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(Wayland forky/sid) HowTo: deb packages for niri-wm (easy!)

niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, is not yet available in Debian, though it's in the works...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1065355

However, it's easy to build on forky/sid thanks to cargo-deb (please leave rust discussions out of this thread ).

Here's some eye candy...
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 23#p152623

niri recommends using xwayland-satellite, so we'll also build that. See here for more info...
https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/wiki/Xwayland

Install git to grab the sources, cargo (rust) to build, cargo-deb to create *.deb packages, and dpkg-dev to take care of a warning in the deb builds because cargo didn't find dpkg-shlibdeps...

sudo apt install git dpkg-dev cargo

cargo install cargo-deb

Install the xwayland-satellite dependencies...

sudo apt install libxcb1-dev libxcb-cursor-dev

Install the niri dependencies...

sudo apt gcc clang libudev-dev libgbm-dev libxkbcommon-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libwayland-dev libinput-dev libdbus-1-dev libsystemd-dev libseat-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev libpango1.0-dev libdisplay-info-dev

These packages aren't needed at build time, but are at runtime. Install them now or run 'sudo apt -f install' later when apt complains about the niri deb package...

alacritty fuzzel libfcft4t64 libutf8proc3 libxcb-xkb1 libxkbcommon-x11-0

We're ready to build. First, xwayland satellite...

git clone https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite.git

cd xwayland-satellite

The moment of truth!

cargo deb

Believe it or not, that's it. If it succeeds you'll have a deb package in the subfolder target/debian. Install it...

cd target/debian

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Build niri in exactly the same way...

git clone https://github.com/niri-wm/niri.git

cd niri

cargo deb

cd target/debian

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Create ~/.config/niri/config.kdl and start with the default, which is well commented and has most of the options listed...
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niri- … config.kdl

Thus endeth the tutorial. I'll start a thread about configs and integration with Noctalia's shell and greeter later. If you try this, please post if the builds succeed for you or not, and/or if my instructions are wrong or unclear. Cheers.

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PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 3,032

Re: (Wayland forky/sid) HowTo: deb packages for niri-wm (easy!)

Nice.

Pretty straight forward process.

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unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 3,072

Re: (Wayland forky/sid) HowTo: deb packages for niri-wm (easy!)

^^@hhh
Thank you for your work. 

At first I was a bit confused because I remembered having the 'xwayland-satellite' package installed here...
Then I found it. @cog made it available in his repo for mango. 

❯ apt policy xwayland-satellite
xwayland-satellite:
  Installiert:           0.8.2-1~gila+1
  Installationskandidat: 0.8.2-1~gila+1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.8.2-1~gila+1 500
        500 https://apt.hatcherylinux.org gila/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 3,072

Re: (Wayland forky/sid) HowTo: deb packages for niri-wm (easy!)

@hhh, it's worked out. 
   

Due to bad experiences, this time I prepared the system directly with unstable/siduction. 

This meant the packages
-git dpkg-dev and
-libxcb-xkb1 libxkbcommon-x11-0
already exists.

You have a typo here:

sudo apt gcc clang ...

Otherwise, your instructions are masterful!    I made absolutely no mistakes!
I'm waiting now until you're back (I assume thunar, mousepad, waybar, my beloved xfce4-terminal etc ppp) need to be installed to use the desktop.

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