How to create a window manager for Wayland?

Joakim Sindholt bacn at zhasha.com
Fri Jan 7 09:30:30 PST 2011


On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 17:22 +0100, Simon Friis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> 
> I'm interested in creating a window manager for Wayland. I've a basic
> understanding of how it's done in X.org with Xlib. Does there exist
> any documentation on how to create a window manager for Wayland?
> 
> 
> Best
> - paldepind

Look in compositor/compositor-*.c to see how the current ones are
implemented. Just in case you don't know: you're going to be
implementing a compositor, not just a wm.





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