wlroots
sway
wlroots | sway | |
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108 | 618 | |
1,969 | 14,906 | |
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9.8 | 9.2 | |
about 3 years ago | 8 days ago | |
C | C | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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wlroots
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Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
Even then, "tinywl" which aims to be a "minimum viable product" Wayland compositor based on wlroots is almost 1k lines:
https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/tree/master/tinywl
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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.
sway
- Sway 1.10 Released
- Sway 1.10 Is Released
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Pomodoro Timer: Waybar and uair
I am currently using uair integrated in to my Waybar running on my sway window manager. I use it similar to the way I use watson (both as a CLI tool with Waybar integrations), so it is a good fit for me.
- Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor
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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
It used to be called `-my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia `
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...
- Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor
- Sway 1.9 Release
- Sway 1.9
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"We understand" ;)
This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.
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Firefox on the Brink?
I also have crashes on sway, but there’s a rough workaround now which prevents the issue totally.
I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.
What are some alternatives?
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Hyprland - Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
wlroots-eglstreams - A modular Wayland compositor library with EGLStreams support
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.
libinput-gestures - Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput
weston - Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance
nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11