well there are 2 desktops to try weson = regarded as a demo and sway which is a tiling desktop for wayland.
I declare that I am still a xwayland fan on both weston and sway. I know others are looking for a non-libX11/Xorg experience
each person has to choose
thats 2018 post and may needed updating.
step 1 please download and install weston.ini
If you succeed with later steps -- you get a better tray and stuff.
step 2 edit your current ~.local/bin/wl so it reads
#!/bin/sh
tce-load -i weston xwayland
# set env
########################
read USER < /etc/sysconfig/tcuser
if [ ! -d /run/user/$(id -u "$USER") ]; then
mkdir -p /run/user/$(id -u "$USER")
chown "$USER":staff /run/user/$(id -u "$USER")
chmod 700 /run/user/$(id -u "$USER")
fi
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
weston-launch
step 3 exit to prompt and run wl
optional....then edit the ini file to create more launchers or just run terminal commands
mine changed as I need a context menu as I have a kensington mouse that does not like copy and paste
so my changed to
[core]
xwayland=true
[xwayland]
path=/usr/local/bin/Xwayland
[keyboard]
keymap_layout=us
[shell]
num-workspaces=5
background-image=/home/tc/2wallpaper/3d.jpeg
[launcher]
icon=/usr/local/share/icons/Adwaita/48x48/apps/utilities-terminal.png
path=/usr/local/bin/lxterminal
[launcher]
icon=/usr/local/share/pixmaps/exittc.png
path=/usr/local/bin/exittc
[launcher]
icon=/usr/local/share/pixmaps/leafpad.png
path=/usr/local/bin/leafpad
[terminal]
font=DejaVuSansMono
font-size=20
after you played with weston....then try out the big boy = sway