Install Jay on CachyOS

What should I do after installing Jay?

1. Run jay in a terminal.
2. Run pacman -Qi jay to see the installed version and the optional dependencies.

How do I update or remove Jay?

Update:

Remove:

What is Jay?

A Wayland Compositor.

Package description: A Wayland Compositor

Reviews of Jay on CachyOS

From GitHub

mahkoh/jay · ★ 725 stars · last commit Oct 31, 2026 · latest release Sep 28, 2026

Real issues opened by users on the project's GitHub, shown as written with a link to each one. 10 most reacted issues opened in the last two years plus the 5 newest issues, bots, pull requests, non English and political posts skipped, capped at 15 per repo. Fetched Nov 1, 2026.

1. Add option for cursor warping with focus changeClosed

   It would be nice to have an option to have the cursor warp when the focused window changes (through a keybind), in the same way as focusfollowsmouse=yes behaves in sway. This is important especially when the newly focused window is not on the currently focused output, resulting…

   @dtop129 · Sep 23, 2025 · 9 reactions · 1 comments · View on GitHub

2. Damage tracking issues for software cursor on Vulkan? (Also cursor latency issue?)Closed

   arch linux, jay-git, nvidia 2070 super with nvidia 595 drivers monitor is 2160x3840 with scaling at 2.0 tearing: always vrr: always, no cursor-hz limit direct-scanout true on my graphics card drm device im also running jay input seat default set-cursor-size 32 on…

   @luvvlyjude · Apr 22, 2026 · 7 reactions · 4 comments · View on GitHub

3. No official community for JayClosed

   Hi! I found out about this project and I'm really interested and amazed by it! But I found that there's no official community (like a discord server, matrix channel, subreddit, ...etc) Having a place like this will really help people who are interested (like me) to be able to…

   @disluckyguy · Mar 16, 2025 · 6 reactions · 5 comments · View on GitHub

4. Request: Keyboard shortcuts inhibitOpen

   @luvvlyjude · Sep 4, 2026 · 6 reactions · 1 comments · View on GitHub

5. Pipewire explicit syncOpen

   The portal should support explicit sync.

   @mahkoh · Jun 12, 2025 · 5 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

6. Option for autotilingOpen

   This is something that I feel Jay could offer that's missing from other "i3/sway-like" window managers. This can be done in sway/i3 with a script that interacts with the IPC, but this doesn't work in Jay and would be nice to include directly in Jay regardless. A great UX thing to…

   @Stoppedpuma · Oct 9, 2025 · 5 reactions · 6 comments · View on GitHub

7. Add option for more keyboard-centric behavior rather than mouse-centricClosed

   I'm going to implement this myself (unless others would like to), I'd just like to discuss some design decisions: Right now, Jay has a fairly mouse-centric design. If you have two monitors, with a window focused on one monitor, and your mouse located on another: Opening a new…

   @khyperia · Apr 27, 2025 · 3 reactions · 1 comments · View on GitHub

8. feature request: Separate Window ManagementOpen

   I really like jay and I would like to thank you for the great effort you have put into the project. But i3 like tiling is not something I am looking for right now. I would like to try out ideas like stacking window management (like or Scrolling window management (like or but…

   @varbhat · Jan 22, 2026 · 3 reactions · 3 comments · View on GitHub

9. Focused border colourClosed

   I wanna disable the window title bar, but that makes it harder for me to determine which window is focused. A distinct border colour for both focused and unfocused window which could make it easier to differentiate.

   @stwawbewwy · May 11, 2026 · 3 reactions · 0 comments · View on GitHub

10. Allow xwayland-satellite as alternative Xwayland implementionOpen

    Not the same as as that calls for Jay's Xwayland implemention to be replaced entirely. I would be interested in a setting that allows xwayland-satellite to be used instead of Jay's Xwayland implementation. There's already support for compositor integration for xwayland-satellite,…

    @effects3d · Mar 23, 2026 · 3 reactions · 1 comments · View on GitHub

11. Composited filp looks a little bit worse/dull in colors compared to direct scan outOpen

    I noticed composited flip of any content looks slightly worse or dull compared to direct scan out of the same content. Its a very small difference, like a 1% difference. Here's how you can test this, I'd like if you'll use mpv but you can use any program. First turn off show-bar…

    @David-Isenah · Nov 1, 2026 · 3 comments · View on GitHub

12. shm udmabuf texture imports don't defer wl_buffer.releaseClosed

    @mahkoh · Oct 30, 2026 · 0 comments · View on GitHub

13. feature request: libinput script supportOpen

    libinput recently(?) added lua scripting support, allowing users to write scripts that inspect evdev events and modify them before they are ingested by libinput: this system is disabled by default. its API consists of three functions: void…

    @khyperia · Oct 27, 2026 · 5 comments · View on GitHub

14. Status bar/pango rendering causes frame dropsClosed

    @mahkoh · Oct 26, 2026 · 1 comments · View on GitHub

15. Firefox crashes when playing video with HDR enabledClosed

    Enabling HDR in Firefox by setting gfx.colormanagement.hdr to true in about:config and then going to play a video from a file or on YouTube (doesn't matter if it's HDR or not) causes a Firefox crash: HDR doesn't actually have to be enabled in Jay for the crash to occur. I can…

    @LeaPhant · Oct 24, 2026 · 2 comments · View on GitHub