Supported:
Add EGLStreams support for DRM backend
Supported:
1. Damage tracking
2. EGLStreams buffer allocator
3. VT switching, sleep/wakeup restoring
4. Client's wayland GL texture import
5. Multi-out
Known issues
1. Absence of Multi-GPU support. Due to lack of dma-buf (Nvidia's WIP)
2. Screenshots through dma-buf (the same reason). TODO with another
approach if possible
3. XWayland acceleration support (Nvidia's WIP)
4. mpv works with `-vo gpu` only with --opengl-es=yes
Note: All dma-buf extensions are disabled for EGLStreams mode.
Else chrome/chromium and other apps relying on them fail to start.
TIP: run mozilla with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 and MOZ_WEBRENDER=0,
chrome with --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland.
NOTE This repo is to be constantly rebased upon original wlroots. Be sure before a rebuild to update your local copy either by recloning or:
cd wlroots-eglstreams
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/master
Rebuild and reinstall sway if using it.
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. Join our IRC channel: #sway-devel on Libera Chat.
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.
Install dependencies:
- meson
- wayland
- wayland-protocols
- EGL
- GLESv2
- libdrm
- GBM
- libinput
- xkbcommon
- udev
- pixman
- libseat
If you choose to enable X11 support:
- xwayland (build-time only, optional at runtime)
- libxcb
- libxcb-render-util
- libxcb-wm
- libxcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting)
Run these commands:
meson build/
ninja -C build/
Install like so:
sudo ninja -C build/ install
See CONTRIBUTING.md.