Noctalia on Debian Trixie
Recently, I explore Wayland on my Debian. As a conservative distro, only a few Wayland compositor in it's official repository (yes, I avoid full desktop, minimal and simple is my preferred approach). Hyprland is not available, unless you compile it from the source code or use 3rd party script such as Jakoolit and also I prefer something simpler, so I install labwc.
sudo apt install labwc
Install swaybg to handle the wallpaper
sudo apt install swaybgInstall mako for notification
sudo apt install mako
Finally install noctalia in Debian Trixie :
Install the repository signing keywget https://pkg.noctalia.dev/deb/nickh-archive-keyring.deb && sudo dpkg -i nickh-archive-keyring.debAdd the repository
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/noctalia-trixie.sources https://pkg.noctalia.dev/deb/noctalia-trixie.sourcesInstall noctalia
sudo apt update sudo apt install noctaliaEdit .config/labwc/autostart, add this line to start noctalia in labwc session
noctalia >/dev/null 2>&1 &*optional: add this line to enable swaybg randomly choose an image file inside /Pictures/wallpapers folder as the wallpaper, the wallpaper will change on boot
swaybg -i $(find ~/Pictures/wallpapers/. -type f | shuf -n1) -m fill &
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| noctalia in action inside Debian Trixie |

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