Wayland or X11 programming for beginners?

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  • wlroots

    Discontinued A modular Wayland compositor library

  • Take a look at wlroots.

  • tinywm

    The tiniest window manager.

  • An invaluable resource was tinywm, which is an implementation of a window manager in as few lines as possible. Also take a look at the code of sowm which (at a whopping 220 lines) is already usable day to day.

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  • sowm

    An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).

  • An invaluable resource was tinywm, which is an implementation of a window manager in as few lines as possible. Also take a look at the code of sowm which (at a whopping 220 lines) is already usable day to day.

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