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Split render/display setups have two separate devices: one display-only with a primary node, and one render-only with a render node. However in these cases the EGL implementation and the Wayland compositor will advertise the display device instead of the render device [1]. The EGL implementation will magically open the render device when the display device is passed in. So just pass the display device as if it were a render device. Maybe in the future Mesa will advertise the render device instead and we'll be able to remove this workaround. [1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/4178 |
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wlroots
Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor; or about 50,000 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.
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.
Building
Install dependencies:
- meson
- wayland
- wayland-protocols
- EGL
- GLESv2
- libdrm
- GBM
- libinput
- xkbcommon
- udev
- pixman
- libseat (optional, for seatd support)
- systemd (optional, for logind support)
- elogind (optional, for logind support on systems without systemd)
- libuuid (optional, for xdg-foreign support)
If you choose to enable X11 support:
- xwayland (build-time only, optional at runtime)
- xcb
- xcb-composite
- xcb-xfixes
- xcb-xinput
- xcb-image
- xcb-render
- xcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting)
- xcb-icccm (optional, for improved Xwayland introspection)
Run these commands:
meson build/
ninja -C build/
Install like so:
sudo ninja -C build/ install
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.