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# wlroots
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Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a [Wayland]
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compositor; or about 60,000 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,
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plus any custom backends you choose to write, which can all be created or
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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.
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We also promote the standardization of portable extensions across
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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
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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
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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
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needs demand custom rendering code.
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wlroots implements a huge variety of Wayland compositor features and implements
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them *right*, so you can focus on the features that make your compositor
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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
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them work independently of one another and freely compose with anything you want
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to implement yourself.
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Check out our [wiki] to get started with wlroots. Join our IRC channel:
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[#sway-devel on Libera Chat].
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wlroots is developed under the direction of the [sway] project. A variety of
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[wrapper libraries] are available for using it with your favorite programming
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language.
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## Building
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Install dependencies:
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* meson
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* wayland
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* wayland-protocols
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* EGL and GLESv2 (optional, for the GLES2 renderer)
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* Vulkan loader, headers and glslang (optional, for the Vulkan renderer)
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* libdrm
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* GBM
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* libinput (optional, for the libinput backend)
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* xkbcommon
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* udev
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* pixman
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* [libseat]
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If you choose to enable X11 support:
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* xwayland (build-time only, optional at runtime)
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* libxcb
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* libxcb-render-util
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* libxcb-wm
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* libxcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting)
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Run these commands:
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meson build/
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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].
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[Wayland]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
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[wiki]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/wikis/Getting-started
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[#sway-devel on Libera Chat]: https://web.libera.chat/gamja/?channels=#sway-devel
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[Sway]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway
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[wrapper libraries]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/wikis/Projects-which-use-wlroots#wrapper-libraries
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[libseat]: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd
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[CONTRIBUTING.md]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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