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Simon Ser bf93d2e67c output: rename impl->rollback to rollback_render
The output backend API is now mostly state-less thanks to the atomic
hooks (commit and test). There is one exception though: attach_render.
This function makes the rendering context current. However sometimes the
compositor might decide not to render after attach_render (e.g. when
there's nothing new to render to the back buffer). Thus
wlr_output_rollback has been introduced to revert the pending state.

Because the output backend API is mostly state-less, the only thing
wlr_output_impl.rollback needs to do is revert the current rendering
context. Rename the function to rollback_render to make this clear. Add
a check in the common wlr_output code to only call rollback_render when
attach_buffer has been previously called.

On the long term, we'll be able to remove attach_render and
rollback_render together.
2020-06-19 11:50:42 -06:00
.builds Remove libcap support 2020-04-29 10:39:09 +02:00
backend output: rename impl->rollback to rollback_render 2020-06-19 11:50:42 -06:00
contrib build: replace version with soversion 2020-01-24 11:17:03 +01:00
docs backend/drm: add env variable to disable modifiers 2020-01-24 19:43:51 +01:00
examples examples/fullscreen-shell: stop advertising linux-dmabuf unconditonally 2020-06-11 11:50:17 -06:00
include output: rename impl->rollback to rollback_render 2020-06-19 11:50:42 -06:00
protocol viewporter: new protocol implementation 2020-06-17 09:10:54 -06:00
render render/egl: print error name 2020-06-18 07:56:05 -06:00
tinywl tinywl: Fix wrong anchor point while resizing a window 2020-04-28 21:44:27 +02:00
types output: rename impl->rollback to rollback_render 2020-06-19 11:50:42 -06:00
util util/region: add wlr_region_scale_xy 2020-06-17 09:10:54 -06:00
xcursor xcursor: also look for cursor themes under ${datadir}/icons by default 2020-03-04 10:02:31 +01:00
xwayland xwayland: add error-checking to server_start_lazy 2020-05-27 18:39:26 +02:00
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CONTRIBUTING.md contributing: add note about events that destroy objects 2020-06-08 10:12:38 -06:00
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meson.build render/egl: include EGL/eglmesaext.h only if present 2020-05-11 08:58:30 +02:00
meson_options.txt Remove libcap support 2020-04-29 10:39:09 +02:00
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wlroots.syms util: add wlr_output_destroy_safe 2020-02-17 20:52:37 +01:00

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
  • systemd (optional, for logind support)
  • elogind (optional, for logind support on systems without systemd)

If you choose to enable X11 support:

  • xcb
  • xcb-composite
  • xcb-xfixes
  • xcb-xinput
  • xcb-image
  • xcb-render
  • x11-xcb
  • xcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting)
  • x11-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.