How Is niri This Good? Live Demo + Config
A detailed review and live demo of niri, a scrollable tiled window compositor for Wayland, covering its features and configuration.
A detailed review and live demo of niri, a scrollable tiled window compositor for Wayland, covering its features and configuration.
A critique of the Hyprland Wayland compositor's toxic community culture, citing hateful behavior and lack of moderation.
A developer's update on open-source projects including Sourcehut's anniversary, Wayland XR compositor work, Sway improvements, and aerc/ctools updates.
A technical guide on using the Cage Wayland compositor with wlroots' RDP backend to create a seamless remote desktop session.
A wlroots maintainer debunks common misconceptions about Wayland, addressing security concerns and screenshot/capture functionality.
Sway 1.0-beta.1, a major release of the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, is now available with significant stability and feature improvements.
Explains the role of shells in Wayland compositors using wlroots, detailing how surfaces become functional UI elements like windows and menus.
Explains the flexible but complex input handling system in the wlroots library for Wayland compositors and input abstraction.
Explains the decision to replace the wlc library with wlroots for building Wayland compositors, detailing technical limitations and the new design.
Third part of a series on building a Wayland compositor with wlroots, focusing on setting up the compositor to render client windows.
Second part of a series on building a Wayland compositor from scratch using wlroots, focusing on enabling client connections.
First part of a series on building a Wayland compositor from scratch using the wlroots library, aimed at developers with C experience.
Announcement of the wlroots whitepaper release, with blog excerpts on topics like blocking LLMs, Hare language meetups, and Wayland OS development.
Announces sway 0.15-rc1 and the upcoming 1.0 release, detailing the migration to the new wlroots library for the Wayland compositor.
August 2017 update on Sway, an i3-compatible Wayland compositor, covering new features like tray icons, bug fixes, and project stats.
An update on Sway, an i3-compatible Wayland compositor, covering recent releases, new features, development stats, and future plans.
Sway 0.11 released with security policies for Wayland and a new bounty program to fund feature development.
Sway, an i3-compatible Wayland compositor, celebrates its first year with major updates, new features, and community contributions.
Explains the multi-process and multi-threaded architecture of a web browser's rendering engine, focusing on the Compositor, Main, and GPU threads.
A December 2015 progress report on sway, an i3-compatible Wayland compositor, detailing features, contributors, and development stats.