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River – A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

• rektide 5y ago
  written in Zig, neat. wiki has one of the best lists of base Wayland utilities I've seen: https://github.com/ifreund/river/wiki/Recommended-Software https://github.com/ifreund/river/wiki/Recommended-Software gonna be hard to pry myself off Sway but I ought to try it.
• jorangreef 5y ago
  The author of River has also done some fantastic talks, on Zig ShowTime [1] and at FOSDEM '21 [2]. [1] "Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig" - https://youtu.be/mwrA5IRGpfU https://youtu.be/mwrA5IRGpfU [2] "Zig: the perfect language for a Wayland Compositor?" - https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland
• ducktective 5y ago
  Doesn't Wayland have "compositing" built-in? I guess this should have been named "window manager"? Interesting project btw :D
  • coldblues 5y ago
    > Display servers using the Wayland protocol are called compositors because they also act as compositing window managers [1] [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland