wayland-rs
Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server). (by Smithay)
wlroots-rs
Attempt at safe Rust bindings for wlroots (by swaywm)
| wayland-rs | wlroots-rs | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | |
| 976 | 166 | |
| 2.9% | 0.0% | |
| 8.2 | 10.0 | |
| 6 days ago | about 4 years ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wayland-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of wayland-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.
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Announcing shikane: a dynamic output configuration tool for Wayland compositors
I was initially having some problems with kanshi and was thinking about contributing the new features I wanted. For some of the features I wanted, kanshi's internals would have to change considerably. Since kanshi consists of only ~1500 lines of C, I began writing a replacement for kanshi in Rust. After many hours of reading Wayland protocol specifications, working on shikane, some help from the Smithay project and their Rust implementation of Wayland protocols, shikane was able to replace kanshi on my machines. I have been using it for over 4 months now.
- Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
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Xremap - Linux key remapper written in Rust
Yes, I agree. Since https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs is deprecated, I'm guessing I should use https://github.com/Smithay/smithay or https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs. As soon as I find a library that can use the protocol, preferably without extra dependency, I'll switch it to that.
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Are there any ongoing efforts of making a desktop environment (similar to KDE or Gnome) in Rust?
There's also https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs
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Rust, Wayland and the Linux "graphics stack"
Also there is an incomplete Wayland implementation in Rust, but that isn't very actively developed.
wlroots-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of wlroots-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-22.
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Xremap - Linux key remapper written in Rust
Yes, I agree. Since https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs is deprecated, I'm guessing I should use https://github.com/Smithay/smithay or https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs. As soon as I find a library that can use the protocol, preferably without extra dependency, I'll switch it to that.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wayland-rs and wlroots-rs you can also consider the following projects:
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
xremap - Key remapper for X11 and Wayland
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
wl-clipboard-rs - A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard.
waylock - A small screenlocker for Wayland compositors
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
dwm-xcb - A port of dwm to XCB.