We all love tiling window managers and most of all we love xmonad. As you may know, wayland is trying to replace X11.
This brings problems for us, since xmonad will not work with the new architecture.
This project is intended to provide a wayland based desktop which shares the ideals and experience from xmonad.
The damage tracking PR currently being worked on for wlroots should fix this. Currently waymonad will render your entire desktop at the outputs framerate, even if nothing changed.
Until surface-layers is in, these won't be implemented.
I have no idea when that happens, so until then expect a rather barebones experience (I may implement background/simple locking if it takes too long).
If you need to lock your session: vlock is the only current option I know about.
This is a bit of a hassle (and not done automagically :/) but it works.
- I don't have a floating layer yet. Though override redirect (dmenu) works.
- There is barely any documentation so unless you are familiar with Haskell (and preferably xmonad) this may be rather hard to get comfortable with.
To test this, you need wlroots installed.
This currently only builds with the new-build feature of cabal-install. stack is (not yet) supported.
- git clone --recursive https://github.com/ongy/waymonad
- cd waymonad
[PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig] cabal new-build
- Configure wlroots with:
meson build --prefix=<your prefix> - ninja -C build install
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=<your prefix>/lib/pkgconfig cabal new-build
- cabal new-haddock
- A straight upgrade path
- A reimplementation of xmonad
- A full implementation containing DRM and other backends
- Implemented in Haskell
- predictable layouting
- based on the compositor library wlroots