| mir | wl | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | |
| 580 | 7 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 9.9 | 10.0 | |
| 3 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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mir
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GLFW has merged proper support for client-side window decorations on Wayland!
If you find the list "odd" feel free to change it on Wikipedia. Also Mir is literally a Wayland compositor as stated by the git repo. To my limited understanding (I never done anything with it, I only saw it on the Wikipedia list) it's quite similar to wlroots.
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Interesting opinions on the shortcomings of Wayland
i see mir development still active on github tho https://github.com/MirServer/mir
- Can some one explain to me in basic terms why snaps are so disliked?
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How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One
People have already mentioned wlroots as a starting point, but there is a less opinionated and more compatible (NVIDIA-ready) library that I’m really quite fond of called Mir: https://github.com/MirServer/mir
One thing to note, Wayland, unlike X, does not support server side decorations yet, so compositor’s responsibilities are mostly just placing windows.
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Linux development sucks
Mir is not dead, it's a Wayland Compositor : https://github.com/MirServer/mir
wl
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GLFW has merged proper support for client-side window decorations on Wayland!
Source: I've been slowly building my own wlroots-based compositor for about a year now and I also wrote my own pure Go implementation of both sides of the Wayland protocol for the fun of it.
What are some alternatives?
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
kawa - A small Wayland compositor inspired by Plan 9's rio.
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
natwm - Not A Tiling Window Manager
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
swm - simple window manager
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"