qtile-install-script (for wayland)

A suite to install qtile with all dependencies and extensions correctly and in a reproducible way.

Goal

• An easy way to install and update to the most recent version of qtile
• Have a reproducible setup of a qtile installation, including dependencies and extensions (everything you need alongside dotfiles)
• Fix all libraries automatically to prevent pywlroots bugs (wayland)
• Corretly build cffi of qtile [not necessary anymore since qtile now handles it automatically]
• A repository to reference how qtile was installed

What it does

• configure in config.toml
• installs all necessary dependencies one by one
• patches libraries not being linked to system libraries
• clones and installs qtile
• runs ffi build scripts
• optionally installs extensions
• links the install to your symlink of choice

Usage

configure in config.toml: installation directory, symlink, extensions, ...

./qtile-packager.py clean to clean / uninstall everything ./qtile-packager.py install cleans and then installs everything ./qtile-packager.py update update the installation

Then you can start qtile for example with dbus-run-session qtile start -b wayland (make sure your link target is in the path).