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.
===> The following configuration options are available for wlroots015-0.15.1_3:
DRM=on: KMS console support
NVIDIA=off: EGLStreams support for DRM backend (experimental)
OPENGL=on: 2D/3D rendering support via OpenGL
VULKAN=on: Vulkan renderer
X11=on: X11 (graphics) support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Known issues:
- NVIDIA option (aka wlroots-eglstreams) requires nvidia-drm.ko from nvidia-driver,
see https://github.com/aritger/eglstreams-kms-example/issues/7
x11-servers/xwayland-devel: drop direct consumers after a26e05c85c30
- Upstream releases frequently and independently from xorg-server
- Both ports have the same features and defaults
- Newer snapshots may decrease stability or break HiDPI patches
Note, wlroots-devel cannot stay on xwayland-devel without introducing
package conflicts when installing hyprland + cage/gamescope.
This reverts commit 4c432d12bbb40a1c91963af26986002e9c388f29.
This reverts commit 09721d1275eea4199d7b39b25d962017187c82a0.
(cherry picked from commit f12fd039794d63cb9407ddec20b01410ceb82898)
