Velox

Velox is a dynamic tiling window manager for wayland. Is is currently under development.

Installation

There are two packages available on the AUR, velox and velox-git. velox is supposed to be the more stable package and velox-git the upstream version. Even though velox is supposed to be the more stable branch, that's not always the case since that branch rarely gets updated and a lot of bug fixes has been pushed since.

The default terminal emulator for velox is st-wl-git as it has great wayland support. Other terminals such as urxvt also work, but only under xwayland.

You probably also want to install dmenu-wl-git from the AUR to be able to more easily launch applications.

Configuration

Velox is configured from a configuration file. The configuration file should be in the users home folder named .velox.conf and the defalt configuration can be found here.

Starting Velox

If you are using the velox package, you simply execute velox from your terminal.

If you are using velox-git, you will have to install the package libinput from the extras reposiroty as well as swc-git from the AUR since the velox-git AUR package is out of date. When these packages are installed, you simply execute swc-launch velox from your terminal.