wlroots
epd-wm
| wlroots | epd-wm | |
|---|---|---|
| 107 | 2 | |
| 1,969 | 22 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.8 | 3.6 | |
| over 2 years ago | over 3 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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wlroots
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Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
>barrier has been unmaintained for a long time.
As if not having new features added for 2 years makes it stop working? barrier is perfectly fine on normal linux desktop installs. I actually use synergy 1.x personally which has been "unmaintained" for much, much longer. Except synergy 1.x will compile and run on anything from windows 98 to ubuntu 5 to debian 12. You can't get a waynergy or inputleap to compile on an OS more than 2 years old. And even then, as you say, it's crapshoot if the particular wayland will have libei; many like sway are actively hostile to it and never will: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2378
- Does Wayland use less battery than x11 in Fedora Linux?
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Arch Linux odd question
It looks like they actually patched it to filter those modes out, so presumably it worked out of the box and was considered undesirable: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/3038
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Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
I haven't experienced any of those. The video game performance hit may be due to vsync, but I don't play games so I haven't noticed.
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If I install a distro without a GUI, can I still launch graphical applications (like a Firefox window, for example)?
You can however use tinywl. It is an example Wayland compositor that can't do more than displaying one application.
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Nearest-neighbor scaling on XWayland apps?
Sway/wlroots has implemented this, but I can't find any discussion for KDE.
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Wofi is SO superior to Rofi
wlroots is archived on github. Is it abandoned? Just saying, that only means they moved git hosts :-D
- wayland-protocols update to allow tearing
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Wayland harder for DE developers?
A lot of compositors are based no the wlroots lirbary. So they are still sharing the development effort and have a common base, its just in the form of a library rather than a display server.
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What does gamescope output to?
gamescope use wlroots
epd-wm
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4.4
Overall if you want a DIY e-reader, your best bet is to pick a low power board that supports Linux, run the most barebones system you can on it, and reduce its power usage by aggressive means (underclocking, undervolting, "deep sleep" by turning it off after X minutes of inactivity). Then for the eink part, use a barebones desktop environment, combined with a window manager meant for eink, such as epd-wm. After that, slap an ebook reader software like Foliate on top, and you're good to go.
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Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I'd agree. I think a lot of single device re-purposing can be useful to others, but a development platform typically indicates a more general purpose. Something like https://github.com/dj311/epd-wm but a lot of these are only for specific chips. This one seems to have more support: https://github.com/vroland/epdiy
What are some alternatives?
wlroots-eglstreams - A modular Wayland compositor library with EGLStreams support
micropython-waveshare-epaper - MicroPython drivers for Waveshare e-paper modules
nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
Pico_ePaper_Code - Waveshrae Pico e-Paper driver code
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
japokwm - A wlroots and dwl based tiling wayland compositor based around creating layouts
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
zen - The reference compositor implementation of Zwin protocol
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Inkycal - Create awesome e-paper dashboards within minutes! Modularity? Check! Python3? Check? Works on Raspberry Pi Zero W? Check! Support for own modules? Check!
x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots