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# wlroots
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Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a [Wayland]
compositor; or about 50,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway.
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- wlroots provides backends that abstract the underlying display and input
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hardware, including KMS/DRM, libinput, Wayland, X11, and headless backends,
plus any custom backends you choose to write, which can all be created or
destroyed at runtime and used in concert with each other.
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- wlroots provides unopinionated, mostly standalone implementations of many
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Wayland interfaces, both from wayland.xml and various protocol extensions.
We also promote the standardization of portable extensions across
many compositors.
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- wlroots provides several powerful, standalone, and optional tools that
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implement components common to many compositors, such as the arrangement of
outputs in physical space.
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- wlroots provides an Xwayland abstraction that allows you to have excellent
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Xwayland support without worrying about writing your own X11 window manager
on top of writing your compositor.
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- wlroots provides a renderer abstraction that simple compositors can use to
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avoid writing GL code directly, but which steps out of the way when your
needs demand custom rendering code.
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wlroots implements a huge variety of Wayland compositor features and implements
them *right*, so you can focus on the features that make your compositor
unique. By using wlroots, you get high performance, excellent hardware
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compatibility, broad support for many wayland interfaces, and comfortable
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development tools - or any subset of these features you like, because all of
them work independently of one another and freely compose with anything you want
to implement yourself.
Check out our [wiki] to get started with wlroots.
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wlroots is developed under the direction of the [sway] project. A variety of
[wrapper libraries] are available for using it with your favorite programming
language.
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## Building
Install dependencies:
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* meson
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* wayland
* wayland-protocols
* EGL
* GLESv2
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* libdrm
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* GBM
* libinput
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* xkbcommon
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* udev
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* pixman
* [libseat]
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If you choose to enable X11 support:
* xwayland (build-time only, optional at runtime)
* libxcb
* libxcb-render-util
* libxcb-wm
* libxcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting)
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Run these commands:
meson build/
ninja -C build/
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Install like so:
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sudo ninja -C build/ install
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## Contributing
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See [CONTRIBUTING.md].
[Wayland]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
[wiki]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki/Getting-started
[Sway]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway
[wrapper libraries]: https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Abindings+org%3Aswaywm&type=Repositories
[libseat]: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd
[CONTRIBUTING.md]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md