wayland

Resources for Wayland WindowManagement.

I'm currently using Wayland as my window manager of choice but amwondering whether it's worthwhile - I can't track information about whatprograms I'm using at what time, what keystrokes I'm using, etc -information I'd like to have about my computer usage (but that causesobvious security problems for userland programs)!

How to make sure an application is not XWayland

Install Xeyes, one of the X11 demo apps. If the eyes are moving when youmouse over the app, it's X and running on XWayland, as X is giving itaccess to all of your desktop information. If they aren't, the app'srunning in Wayland - the eyes don't have access.

Resources

Wayland book

Fixing screensharing on wayland

share with wayland packageloopback device for screen sharingcontrol video devices like a webcam

These tutorials aren't as important as software that people can download that works seamlessly.I want abstractions - configurable services that can be downloaded by anyone that will 'just work'.

Implementation Libraries

GitHub - swaywm/wlroots: A modular Wayland compositor library
A C bootstrapping toolkit for building Wayland compositors. Is thisuseful? I'll investigate further.

smithay
a tool for Rust waylandcompositor development

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2023-05-25
2023-02-22
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