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wlroots is designed to support many different user interaction paradigms. Many Wayland compositors do share the same nuances, sure, but many do not. In addition

wlroots is designed to support many different user interaction paradigms. Many Wayland compositors do share the same nuances, sure, but many do not. In addition to the typical desktop experience, you can use wlroots to make a compositor which arranges windows in 3D space for VR, or make a compositor that runs a phone interface, or a dashboard for a car, or any number of other use-cases. Even within the desktop paradigm, there's a lot of variance and room for compositors to specialize, but it's more subtle.

katastic 9y ago
I'm still waiting for someone to make a wayland compositor that compares to compiz. One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen. For all the "omg it's slow" posts about compiz and x-server, it's fast enough to run on my netbook with a 5-watt processor.
- simcop2387 9y ago
  I haven't tried it recently but if kde has gotten better on Wayland it might offer this feature. You can set a compositing effect for this in x11 with it last I looked. But last time I tried kde Wayland it was far from stable.
- virtualwhys 9y ago
  > One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen While it's not per window inversion, for years I've been using the tiny (100KB) and wondrous xcalib package for screen inversion* Should note that in order to get per screen inversion working I need to use Nvidia's Xinerama extension (without this extension inversion happens across all screens). * bound to alt-o/alt-i hotkeys with xbindkeys. Here's the .xbindkeysrc if anyone's interested. # invert screen 0 "xcalib -i -a -s 0" m:0x8 + c:32 # invert screen 1 "xcalib -i -a -s 1" m:0x8 + c:31
  - osivertsson 9y ago
    With xcalib I never got inversion working on all screens, only the first one (Intel graphics). However, XRandR Invert Colors [1] has worked flawless with multi-monitor setups. [1] https://github.com/zoltanp/xrandr-invert-colors https://github.com/zoltanp/xrandr-invert-colors
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Do you mean invert as in turn over 180 degrees? Sway 1.0 will be able to do that.
  - axiometry 9y ago
    I believe they mean invert colors.
    - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
      Ah. That seems like a pretty odd dealbreaker. It's possible in theory, I guess.

katastic 9y ago

I'm still waiting for someone to make a wayland compositor that compares to compiz. One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen. For all the "omg it's slow" posts about compiz and x-server, it's fast enough to run on my netbook with a 5-watt processor.

simcop2387 9y ago
I haven't tried it recently but if kde has gotten better on Wayland it might offer this feature. You can set a compositing effect for this in x11 with it last I looked. But last time I tried kde Wayland it was far from stable.
virtualwhys 9y ago
> One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen While it's not per window inversion, for years I've been using the tiny (100KB) and wondrous xcalib package for screen inversion* Should note that in order to get per screen inversion working I need to use Nvidia's Xinerama extension (without this extension inversion happens across all screens). * bound to alt-o/alt-i hotkeys with xbindkeys. Here's the .xbindkeysrc if anyone's interested. # invert screen 0 "xcalib -i -a -s 0" m:0x8 + c:32 # invert screen 1 "xcalib -i -a -s 1" m:0x8 + c:31
- osivertsson 9y ago
  With xcalib I never got inversion working on all screens, only the first one (Intel graphics). However, XRandR Invert Colors [1] has worked flawless with multi-monitor setups. [1] https://github.com/zoltanp/xrandr-invert-colors https://github.com/zoltanp/xrandr-invert-colors
Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
Do you mean invert as in turn over 180 degrees? Sway 1.0 will be able to do that.
- axiometry 9y ago
  I believe they mean invert colors.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
    Ah. That seems like a pretty odd dealbreaker. It's possible in theory, I guess.