This repository is for hosting the Gnome specific changes of the parent repository and to host the package on AUR. Please submit any issues or PRs on the parent repository

Because I REALLY had nothing better to do with my life.

• A version of Minecraft >= 1.13

  • Older versions are not guaranteed to work. You can still try, though.

• The MultiMC Minecraft Launcher

  • Use it even if you don't plan to do this. It's great!
  • If you don't want to do that, throw this into your Java arguments, changing the file path as needed: -Dorg.lwjgl.glfw.libname=/usr/lib/libglfw.so

• A distro with a patched GLFW package

  • This guide has steps for Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo
  • Or the knowledge on how to patch packages in your distribution.
  • In which case you can skip step 2 of this guide, as it will not apply to you and you should know what to do with the .patch files in this repo already

• Forge will not work without another workaround
• The controls page (and anywhere a keyboard key is shown) is a bit wonky
  • Keys you replace through your compositor (example: caps:swapescape) will require you to use the original key
• Originally made for Sway, GNOME needs to manually makepkg the libdecoration branch for GNOME specific fixes or download an unofficial package listed below (until a new GLFW version releases)
  • I haven't received any bug reports from KDE, so it'll (probably) work

Go to Settings > Minecraft, and enable Use system installation of GLFW.

If you have a Wayland-compatible version of GLFW installed (glfw-wayland on Arch) you can try launching the game. It will most likely error out with something about window focus not being supported. In that case, you are in the right direction.

If you're not under an Arch-based system, you're mostly on your own here. You can try waiting for someone else to write a guide I guess.

Install the glfw-wayland-minecraft package from the AUR.

If you're using GNOME, try using the unofficial glfw-wayland-minecraft-libdecoration package, which packages the libdecoration branch of this repository to the AUR.

git clone this repository to somewhere, and run makepkg -si inside. It will ask you to replace your existing GLFW package if already installed.

If you're using GNOME, consider running git checkout libdecoration before running makepkg -si. This is a (probably) slightly unstable version that works better on GNOME.

Install the Fedora package from https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lyessaadi/minecraft-wayland-glfw/. See Admicos#4 for more information.

Patch Gentoo's GLFW package by following the guide at Admicos#6

This should be it. Try launching Minecraft now and see if it works.

If some version of Minecraft doesn't work with the patch enabled, you can disable it through MultiMC just for that version by

• Right clicking on your instance
• Clicking Edit instance
• Going to Settings > Workarounds
• Enabling Native Libraries override switch
• Disabling the GLFW option

You can also disable the global switch and enable the patch per instance if that's how you want to roll.

Due to "Forge being Forge", you will need to add -Dfml.earlyprogresswindow=false to your Java arguments to make Forge instances start up properly. See issue #1 for more information.

I really didn't do much on this other than "re-discovering" these things which aren't even that old. Here are the proper credits:

• ninja- on GitHub

  • For glfw/glfw#1725

• annacrombie on GitHub

  • For glfw/glfw#1711