Smithay

A smithy for rusty wayland compositors

Goals

Smithay aims to provide building blocks to create wayland compositors in Rust. While not being a full-blown compositor, it'll provide objects and interfaces implementing common functionalities that pretty much any compositor will need, in a generic fashion.

It supports the core Wayland protocols, the official protocol extensions, and some external extensions, such as those made by and for wlroots and KDE

Also:

Documented: Smithay strives to maintain a clear and detailed documentation of its API and its functionalities. Compiled documentations are available on docs.rs for released versions, and here for the master branch.
Safety: Smithay will target to be safe to use, because Rust.
Modularity: Smithay is not a framework, and will not be constraining. If there is a part you don't want to use, you should not be forced to use it.
High-level: You should be able to not have to worry about gory low-level stuff (but Smithay won't stop you if you really want to dive into it).

Anvil

Smithay as a compositor library has its own sample compositor: anvil.

To get informations about it and how you can run it visit anvil README

Other compositors that use Smithay

Cosmic: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
Catacomb: A Wayland Mobile Compositor
MagmaWM: A versatile and customizable Wayland Compositor
Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
Strata: A cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor
Pinnacle: A WIP Wayland compositor, inspired by AwesomeWM
Sudbury: Compositor designed for ChromeOS
wprs: Like xpra, but for Wayland, and written in Rust.

System Dependencies

(This list can depend on features you enable)

libwayland
libxkbcommon
libudev
libinput
libgbm
libseat
xwayland

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