kwinft
By kwinft
arcan
Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine" (by letoram)
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kwinft
Posts with mentions or reviews of kwinft.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.
- What's the idea behind `kwinft`
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
You might be interested in the KWinFT project I started few years ago which aims at providing such high-level libraries in the long run.
- Not sure which WM to pick
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Batman arkham city doesn't like wayland
They have It's much much better
- Valve does what FromSoftware don’t, thanks to Steam Deck’s shader precaching update
- Independent yakuake sessions per activity?
- Quest for low latency wayland
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Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll)
Interesting. If you don't mind, I'm working on KWinFT, originally forked from KWin, and now in the process of splitting out reusable libraries for compositor creation. My goal is to provide desktop-agnostic template libraries, so might be a good fit for you.
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Sway merged the new vulkan renderer!
All I can think of is the KWinFT project, how that project benifits from this as well.
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Do I even need kwin-lowlatency any more ?
https://gitlab.com/kwinft/kwinft/-/issues/182 has the opposite
arcan
Posts with mentions or reviews of arcan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Is there a cross-platform graphics library that can run without X or wayland that runs on the BSD's bare-metal?
Something like this ? https://arcan-fe.com/
- X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
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kirby.nvim: design update
This requires to remove the terminal emulator plus adjust IPC, like what arcan is doing: https://github.com/letoram/arcan
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VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
kragen, what's the current status of BubbleOS?
Also, I'm curious what you think of Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com)
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Qt Wayland: support for surviving a compositor crash was merged
afair ChromeOS do implement it, harder to find the commit but also know Arcan mentioned elsewhere in this thread added it quite a while ago https://github.com/letoram/arcan/commit/d547c55565a848946422e24eee324c8ed091ff15
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not the biggest Xorg fan, but it isn't all sunshine and rainbows in the promised Wayland.
I managed to find this one in my history: Arcan it does has a cool name ngl, I never tried it though
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Wayland blows ass and mostly functions as a launcher for x.org processes. Nobody needs, wants or asked for Wayland. It's nobody's fault but the assholes at FreeDesktop
Lol not arcan
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A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
See https://arcan-fe.com/, in particular Lash: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
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Is Wayland really the best solution
LOL. Not. Meanwhile, one dude managed to write an entire display server that handles, both, Wayland and X11 apps: https://arcan-fe.com/
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SDL Tries Again To Prefer Wayland Over X11
Arcan is a decent contender for an actual way forward (and like PipeWire replacing PulseAudio, Arcan natively supports X11 and Wayland clients)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kwinft and arcan you can also consider the following projects:
kwin-lowlatency - archived - X11 full-screen unredirection and lots'a settings for KWin
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
waybox - An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP)
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
wlstem
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox