Making a Wayland Compositor and WM using Rust

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  • fireplace

    Discontinued Modular wayland window manager written in rust (by Drakulix)

  • one of the POP OS developers also worked on a wm before Cosmic https://github.com/Drakulix/fireplace

  • cosmic-comp

    Compositor for the COSMIC desktop environment

  • Maybe take a look at cosmic-comp it is currently in development by System76 for their own Cosmic DE. Smithay also has Anvil and Smallvil contained in it's repository, both are example implementations of a compositor using Smithay.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • jay

    A Wayland compositor written in rust (by mahkoh)

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

  • mwm

    My Window Manager

  • Yeah, I already started developing it. I started with Smallvil and then I also found mwm

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