Wayland

General

• Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain. GNOME and KDE are expected to be ported to it. Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.

Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases.

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1311049#p1311049

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol) - a computer protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a reference implementation of the protocol in the C programming language. A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor.Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg as a free and open community-driven project with the aim of replacing the X Window System with a modern, simpler windowing system in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The project's source code is published under the terms of the MIT License, a permissive free software licence

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland

• YouTube: The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)

• WOW, Wayland Over Wire! - [1]

• Drew DeVault’s Blog: The future of Wayland, and sway’s role in it

• Wayland misconceptions debunked

• https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/ae4d1cdcca97ffeb2c35f0878d75dc17

• FOSDEM 2019 - Wayland in IVI systems

• https://github.com/MirServer/wlcs - Wayland Conformance Test Suite

• https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client, 2018 edition

• Introduction to damage tracking

Libraries

wlroots

• https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library

• Input handling in wlroots

• Writing a Wayland compositor with wlroots: shells

smithay

• https://github.com/Smithay/smithay - aims to provide building blocks to create wayland compositors in Rust. While not being a full-blown compositor, it'll provide objects and interfaces implementing common functionnalities that pretty much any compositor will need, in a generic fashion.

Compositors

Weston

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston - A lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Weston

sway

• Sway - tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.
  • https://github.com/swaywm/sway

way-cooler

• https://github.com/Immington-Industries/way-cooler

adwc

• https://github.com/detomastah/adwc - adwm clone, dead
  • https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5MTA

wayfire

• https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
  • YouTube: Wayfire demos

Cage

• Cage - a kiosk compositor for Wayland. A kiosk is a window manager (in the X11 world) or compositor (in the Wayland world) that is designed for a user experience wherein user interaction and activities outside the scope of the running application are prevented. That is, a kiosk compositor displays a single maximized application at a time and prevents the user from interacting with anything but this application.
  • Jente Hidskes' website - The first pre-release of Cage
  • https://github.com/Hjdskes/cage

• Using Cage for a seamless remote Wayland session | Drew DeVault’s Blog

Wio

• Announcing Wio: A clone of Plan 9’s Rio for Wayland

Greenfield

• https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
  • FOSDEM 2019 - Greenfield: An in-browser Wayland compositor

Utilities

wtype

• https://github.com/atx/wtype - xdotool type for wayland

wdisplays

• https://github.com/cyclopsian/wdisplays - GUI display configurator for wlroots compositors

wayland-debug

• https://github.com/wmww/wayland-debug - A command line tool to help debug Wayland clients and servers

Screenshots

• https://github.com/emersion/grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor

• https://github.com/emersion/slurp - Select a region in a Wayland compositor and print it to the standard output.