How to create a window manager for Wayland?

[Dana Jansens]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Simon Friis <paldepind at linux.com> wrote:
> 2011/1/8 Joakim Sindholt <bacn at zhasha.com>
>>
>> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 12:26 +0100, Simon Friis wrote:
>> > Thanks. I will check them out.
>> >
>> >
>> > I do know that a Wayland wm will have to be a compositor. But I don't
>> > really know how complicated making a compositor is. What will I have
>> > to know?
>> It's not really that complex. Wayland is pretty much just a buffer
>> management system, and your job in writing a compositor will be to take
>> the buffers given to you by applications and render them appropriately.
>> The protocol is intentionally vague in order to allow you to do pretty
>> much whatever you please with the buffers. That means you could write a
>> window manager that operates in 3D space, or allows rotation of windows.
>> As long as you can still redirect input to the correct surfaces
>> (windows) you're all set.
> I will give it a try then. We'll see if I can figure out how to render
> the buffers appropriately ;) .

I think its important to point out that before a WM can fully be
implemented, protocols need to be defined for app<->compositor/wm
communication.  There have been a thread or two about this on the list
you could look up.

- Dana

>> PS. when replying to a mailing list, you should do a group reply.
> Ups! I'm sorry. I though GMail did that automatically.
>
>> > 2011/1/7 Joakim Sindholt <bacn at zhasha.com>
>> >         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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