Sway merged the new vulkan renderer!

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  • wlroots

    Discontinued A modular Wayland compositor library

  • gamescope

    Discontinued SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope] (by Plagman)

  • It has been possible to write Vulkan based compositors with wlroots before that too, but it required generally 1000+ lines of code for a custom vulkan renderer. See gamescope for an example.

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  • sway

    i3-compatible Wayland compositor

  • Yea I’m running it from https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Development-Setup

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