Aether

Compositor for Wayland built on wlroots-0.19 and AetherEngine-0.4.

Full Setup

meson subprojects download AetherEngine
meson setup build
meson compile -C build
meson install -C build

Download Subprojects

AetherEngine is consumed directly as a Meson subproject from subprojects/AetherEngine.

meson subprojects download AetherEngine

The build does not fall back to the system-installed AetherEngine.

Configure Build

meson setup build

Compile

meson compile -C build

Install

meson install -C build

This installs:

• Aether to PREFIX/bin
• Aether.desktop to DATADIR/wayland-sessions

Optional

Disable XWayland support if needed:

meson setup build -Dxwayland=false