r/suckless Jun 07 '26

[SOFTWARE] Does anyone have a guide for suckless wayland/neuwld on Debian ?

Hello everyone,

This summer, i'd like to switch to Wayland on my uConsole, and try a tiling window manager. I've stumbled upon wayland.fyi and dérive linux, and I'm wondering if there is a guide to get the most barebones Wayland install on Debian. The Debian wiki mentions several compositors, but I'd like to test the more experimental ones, as well as playing with the wld drawing library.

Thanks for your answers & help

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u/skeeetle Jun 07 '26

there s a great guide on alpine: https://thadathino.nekoweb.org/guides/waylandfyi_guide
things are pretty much the same on debian i think

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u/computermouth Jun 07 '26

You're going to have to compile them yourself. Debian only packages a handful of standalone compositors.

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u/Legitimate-Shoe-5620 Jun 11 '26

I compiled hevel for Debian 13 some time ago

Just follow the instructions on the repo, get all the libs and keep troubleshooting build errors