wlroots
modular Wayland compositor library
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MaintainerThe OpenBSD ports mailing-list
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 compo53sitors, 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
implementsthem 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.
- devel/ninja
- graphics/cairo
- graphics/ffmpeg
- graphics/glslang
- graphics/png
- graphics/vulkan-headers
- misc/hwdata
- wayland/wayland-protocols
- wayland/xwayland
- STEM->=1.3.2v0:devel/meson
- devel/dwz
- graphics/cairo
- graphics/ffmpeg
- graphics/png
- wayland/xwayland