A modular Wayland compositor library
Go to file
Simon Ser 0fc532f8de cursor: remove wlr_cursor_set_image()
Superseded by wlr_cursor_set_buffer().
2023-07-02 22:42:37 +00:00
.builds backend/drm: use libdisplay-info to parse EDID 2023-02-28 14:44:02 +00:00
backend backend/drm: use panel_orientation if it is set 2023-06-30 09:34:28 -07:00
docs backend/drm: add libliftoff interface 2023-02-20 18:38:57 +01:00
examples examples/pointer: use wlr_cursor_set_xcursor() 2023-06-30 17:24:44 +00:00
include cursor: remove wlr_cursor_set_image() 2023-07-02 22:42:37 +00:00
protocol wp-fractional-scale-v1: new protocol implementation 2023-02-08 16:31:39 +01:00
render render/vulkan: Don't compute texture.has_alpha until first... 2023-06-21 11:37:54 -04:00
tinywl tinywl: enable new outputs 2023-06-27 16:26:30 +00:00
types cursor: remove wlr_cursor_set_image() 2023-07-02 22:42:37 +00:00
util util/log: fix buffer overflow 2023-06-29 15:58:56 +03:00
xcursor xcursor: Resolve warning in xcursor_build_theme_dir 2023-04-25 10:16:59 +00:00
xwayland compositor: listen to role_resource destroy signal 2023-06-23 14:33:26 +02:00
.editorconfig Relax 80 column limit 2022-11-22 18:19:46 +00:00
.gitignore gitignore: remove build dir entries 2022-06-14 10:08:54 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml ci: add .gitlab-ci.yml 2021-11-01 16:51:18 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING.md contributing: add instructions for forking 2023-06-29 17:50:44 +00:00
LICENSE Update LICENSE year (MIT license) 2018-04-12 21:29:59 -04:00
meson_options.txt backend/session: make optional 2022-11-25 16:15:29 +00:00
meson.build build: drop proto_inc 2023-06-14 16:35:31 +02:00
README.md backend/drm: use libdisplay-info to parse EDID 2023-02-28 14:44:02 +00:00
wlroots.syms build: simplify version script 2021-06-17 11:03:21 +02:00

wlroots

Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor; or about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway.

  • wlroots provides backends that abstract the underlying display and input 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.
  • wlroots provides unopinionated, mostly standalone implementations of many Wayland interfaces, both from wayland.xml and various protocol extensions. We also promote the standardization of portable extensions across many compositors.
  • wlroots provides several powerful, standalone, and optional tools that implement components common to many compositors, such as the arrangement of outputs in physical space.
  • wlroots provides an Xwayland abstraction that allows you to have excellent Xwayland support without worrying about writing your own X11 window manager on top of writing your compositor.
  • wlroots provides a renderer abstraction that simple compositors can use to avoid writing GL code directly, but which steps out of the way when your needs demand custom rendering code.

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 compatibility, broad support for many wayland interfaces, and comfortable 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. Join our IRC channel: #wlroots on Libera Chat.

A variety of wrapper libraries are available for using it with your favorite programming language.

Building

Install dependencies:

  • meson
  • wayland
  • wayland-protocols
  • EGL and GLESv2 (optional, for the GLES2 renderer)
  • Vulkan loader, headers and glslang (optional, for the Vulkan renderer)
  • libdrm
  • GBM (optional, for the GBM allocator)
  • libinput (optional, for the libinput backend)
  • xkbcommon
  • udev (optional, for the session)
  • pixman
  • libseat (optional, for the session)
  • hwdata (optional, for the DRM backend)
  • libdisplay-info (optional, for the DRM backend)
  • libliftoff (optional, for the DRM backend)

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)

Run these commands:

meson setup build/
ninja -C build/

Install like so:

sudo ninja -C build/ install

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.