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@@ -1,49 +1,97 @@ # wlroots -Pluggable, composable modules for building a -[Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/) compositor. +Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a +[Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/) compositor; or about 40,000 lines of +code you were going to write anyway. -This is a WIP: [status](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/9) +- 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 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. -## Contributing +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 +compatability, 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. + +**Status**: prior to 1.0 the API is not stable, but we've done most of the work +and various projects are using wlroots to build Wayland compositors with. -See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) +wlroots is developed under the direction of the +[sway](https://github.com/swaywm/sway) project. A variety of wrapper libraries +[are available](https://github.com/swaywm) for using it with your favorite +programming language. ## Building Install dependencies: +* meson * wayland * wayland-protocols * EGL * GLESv2 -* DRM +* libdrm * GBM * libinput +* xkbcommon * udev * pixman * systemd (optional, for logind support) * elogind (optional, for logind support on systems without systemd) * libcap (optional, for capability support) -* asciidoc (optional, for man pages) + +If you choose to enable X11 support: + +* xkb +* xkb-composite +* xkb-xfixes +* xkb-image +* xkb-render +* x11-xcb +* xcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting) +* x11-icccm (optional, for improved Xwayland introspection) +* xkb-xcb (optional, for improved keyboard handling on the X11 backend) Run these commands: meson build ninja -C build -(On FreeBSD, you need to pass an extra flag to prevent a linking error: `meson build -D b_lundef=false`) +On FreeBSD, you need to pass an extra flag to prevent a linking error: +`meson build -D b_lundef=false`. -## Running the Reference Compositor +Install like so: -wlroots comes with a reference compositor called rootston that demonstrates the -features of the library. + sudo ninja -C build install -After building, run rootston from a terminal or VT with: +## Running the test compositor - ./build/rootston/rootston +wlroots comes with a test compositor called rootston, which demonstrates the +features of the library and is used as a testbed for the development of the +library. It may also be useful as a reference for understanding how to use +various wlroots features. + +If you followed the build instructions above the rootston executable can be +found at `./build/rootston/rootston`. To use it, refer to the example config at +[./rootston/rootston.ini.example](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/rootston/rootston.ini.example) +and place a config file of your own at `rootston.ini` in the working directory +(or in an arbitrary location via `rootston -C`). Other options are available, +refer to `rootston -h`. + +## Contributing -Now you can run windows in the compositor from the command line or by -configuring bindings in your -[`rootston.ini`](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/rootston/rootston.ini.example) -file. +See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). |