Top 23 Rust Wayland Projects

• rustdesk

  484 62,882 9.9 Rust

  An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

Project mention: Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-10

Take your risk to use it, it is not signed and verified by Microsoft, and you need to install the test cert to use it. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444#discus...

• Weylus

  64 6,389 0.0 Rust

  Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

Project mention: Show HN: Another way to use an old tablet as an extra screen | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-06

I've used Weylus [0]. It works over LAN, lets you control the mouse from your tablet. Sometimes it's laggy, but you can configure the resolution so it's not using too much bandwidth. I'm not sure if it's stable at all. Haven't used it on a regular basis.

[0] https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

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• winit

  48 4,390 9.7 Rust

  Window handling library in pure Rust

  

Project mention: Linux version of Warp terminal is here | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-22

Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.

I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp: https://warp.dev/

Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).

Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.

[1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

• Kooha

  34 2,189 9.7 Rust

  Elegantly record your screen

Project mention: Video recording in Wayland (Gnome) is giving me all sorts of problems. | /r/linuxquestions | 2023-05-23

Kooha, no matter what setting i change, gives me a recording with frozen images, i opened an issue in their Github, but it's been a week and no support https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha/issues/242 And looking at the frequency of updates, the project looks unmaintained.

• niri

  4 1,835 9.9 Rust

  A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

Project mention: Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included (tmux alternative) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-05

Taking it even one step further, I probably would really be better off managing the window tiling in my window manager, however, I still have yet to settle on a tiling window manager that works well enough under wayland and supports everything I need well enough to give up the Gnome shell. I did try https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri this past weekend and it's pretty great. niri is inspired by PaperWM. I used PaperWM for a while and it was pretty awesome but suffers from the same issue as all of the tiling extensions for Gnome shell: they are never stable enough for for my daily use because Gnome is a moving target and the gnome shell extension API isn't really up to the task of radically transforming the window management paradigm. Projects like PaperWM have too many downsides that are really difficult to overcome, despite their significant innovation and appealing UX.

• smithay

  19 1,608 9.6 Rust

  A smithy for rusty wayland compositors

  

• xremap

  32 1,212 8.8 Rust

  Key remapper for X11 and Wayland

  

Project mention: Keyd: Linux Key Remapper | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-01

I'm using this successfully: https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap

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• wayland-rs

  5 967 8.3 Rust

  Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server).

  

Project mention: Announcing shikane: a dynamic output configuration tool for Wayland compositors | /r/rust | 2023-04-29

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.

• lan-mouse

  3 791 9.3 Rust

  mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN

Project mention: Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-10

This is great, but currently very limited; partial support for Windows. Seems inclined more towards Apple.

https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse

• tuigreet

  9 763 7.7 Rust

  Graphical console greeter for greetd

Project mention: A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities? | /r/archlinux | 2023-06-21

Check out https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet if you want a terminal based display manager.

• lemurs

  6 587 7.2 Rust

  A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒

Project mention: Which loginmanager to use? | /r/hyprland | 2023-07-10

I've settled on Lemurs.

• onagre

  2 485 8.2 Rust

  A general purpose application launcher for X and wayland inspired by rofi/wofi and alfred

  

• kime

  4 477 4.2 Rust

  Korean IME

• SwayOSD

  1 429 7.1 Rust

  A GTK based on screen display for keyboard shortcuts like caps-lock and volume

• ironbar

  2 413 9.6 Rust

  Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

• kickoff

  5 319 6.2 Rust

  Minimalistic program launcher (by j0ru)

Project mention: is wofi dead? | /r/swaywm | 2023-12-07

I like kickoff.

• yofi

  4 316 6.4 Rust

  yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland

• wl-clipboard-rs

  2 203 6.8 Rust

  A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard.

• jay

  1 188 9.3 Rust

  A Wayland compositor written in rust (by mahkoh)

Project mention: Making a Wayland Compositor and WM using Rust | /r/rust | 2023-05-21

also found https://github.com/mahkoh/jay

• HybridBar

  1 159 4.5 Rust

  A status bar focused on wlroots Wayland compositors (by vars1ty)

• ego

  3 111 6.0 Rust

  Alter Ego: run Linux desktop applications under a different local user (by intgr)

Project mention: Call for Ideas: How to have a 'user container' while logged in with a guest account? | /r/linuxquestions | 2023-05-25

• runa

  7 107 8.1 Rust

  wayland compositor toolbox

• rot8

  5 101 6.4 Rust

  screen rotation daemon

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