PLEASE GO TO THIS REPO'S UP TO DATE LOCATION, https://source.carbon.sh
Maintainer: Adrian Vovk
carbonSHELL (or cSH) is the main graphical interface of carbonOS
The shell is designed primarily to run on NixOS, and is therefore built with the Nix package manager. This is the only build dependency, since Nix handles everything else internally.
The shell runs on top of a Wayland compositor called Wayfire, and that needs to be built first.
$ cd wayfire
$ nix build
Once the compositor is built, you can build the shell.
[...]
$ cd ../shell
$ nix build
Once built, you can start the environment. There are a few ways to achieve this.
First, you can edit wayfire/config.ini and change the hardcoded paths used for launching the shell. The paths you need to change all start with /home/adrian/Development/desktop. Change this prefix to match the location of this cloned repo. Then run:
[...]
$ wayfire/result/bin/wayfire --config wayfire/config.ini
Otherwise, you can use two different terminals and run this:
$ wayfire/result/bin/wayfire --config wayfire/config.ini
<SWITCH TO A NEW TERMINAL>
$ cd <cloned repo>/shell
$ result/bin/shell && result/bin/shell --wallpaper ../wallpapers/spacex.jpg
<SWITCH BACK TO FIRST TERMINAL>
To use Xwayland, either find it in /nix/store and add it to PATH, or install it using your distro's package manager.
This is what building and running will look like in the near future:
$ cd session/
$ nix build
$ result/bin/carbon-session
I will also be moving the entire project to Meson, allowing builds from outside Nix.