kwinft
By kwinft
cagebreak
Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison (by project-repo)
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kwinft
Posts with mentions or reviews of kwinft.
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- 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
cagebreak
Posts with mentions or reviews of cagebreak.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
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Actually functional compositors, and querying their protocol capabilities : mirroring screens
That's true for a lot of libraries, you have to maintain the code, I would treat that as a fact of life, It might be worth noting there are some projects designed to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots which might be different: cage -> used by cagebreak phoc -> used by phosh and wayfire -> used by swayfire.
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
cagebreak as far as i can tell is a one man project (it uses cage to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
I also remembered cagebreak (wayland window manager). it uses cage (which is defined as a "wayland kiosk" but might also be used as a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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EXWM and Wayland
Anyway, like you I also wanted to see how far I could go on Wayland. After trying out a number of wms I settled on cagebreak which is modeled on ratpoison. It's still in early development but worked well enough for me to give it a semi daily driver status. It works really well with emacs too, without the single-thread issue. I went for a pure Wayland experience (without XWayland as well), so I couldn't some apps I normally use - but I was able to create something quite close to my xorg setup.
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Wayland alternatives
There's cagebreak, wich is inspired by ratpoison. It's different yo hlwm, but it has the same concept of containers, but every container only have the "max" layout
- Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kwinft and cagebreak you can also consider the following projects:
kwin-lowlatency - archived - X11 full-screen unredirection and lots'a settings for KWin
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
wlstem
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.