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This page contains OS/distribution specific instructions for building and installation Labwc. It is community-maintained, so feel free to update and change as required.
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Install labwc:
sudo pacman -S labwc
Alternatively, install labwc-git or build with:
sudo pacman -S meson gcc wlroots wayland-protocols cairo pango libxml2 glib2
git clone https://github.com/labwc/labwc
cd labwc/
meson setup build/
meson compile -C build/
Install the wlroots dependencies according the sway wiki.
Then, follow these steps:
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev libglib2.0-dev
# If you're on Buster or Bookworm, you'll need to get a later version of meson, wayland,
# wayland-protocols and possibly others. You can add wayland and wayland-protocols
# as subprojects by adding wayland.wrap and wayland-protocols.wrap files in the subprojects
# directory, as described [here](https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/1356), in order to have
# meson fetch relevant sources during configuration.
# On Bookworm, enable the [backports repository](https://backports.debian.org/) and install
# the libdisplay-info-dev build requirement to build versions 0.7.0 and newer.
git clone https://github.com/labwc/labwc
cd labwc/
meson setup build/
meson compile -C build/
For Raspberry Pi, try this:
sudo apt install hwdata libgbm-dev libdisplay-info-dev libseat-dev libinput-dev libpango1.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0 libcairo2-dev libglib2.0-dev libpixman-1-dev libxkbcommon-dev liblcms2-dev libxcb-xinput-dev libxcb-errors-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-res0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-composite0-dev cmake libxml2-dev libliftoff-dev
git clone https://github.com/labwc/labwc
cd labwc/
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm.git subprojects/libdrm
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vyivel/libsfdo.git subprojects/libsfdo
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland.git subprojects/wayland
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols.git subprojects/wayland-protocols
meson setup build/
meson compile -C build/
Install labwc:
sudo dnf install labwc
@epsilon_0 maintains the wayland-desktop overlay which contains the labwc package:
sudo eselect repository enable wayland-desktop
sudo emerge --ask --verbose gui-wm/labwc
Install labwc:
sudo eopkg it labwc
@Sunderland93 maintains this ppa for Ubuntu 22.04:
https://launchpad.net/~samoilov-lex/+archive/ubuntu/labwc
Install labwc:
sudo scratch install labwc
Install labwc:
sudo xbps-install labwc
