swc: A small compositor framework

[Marc Chalain]

Hello Michael,
I'm interesting by your library. I began a wayland compositor for very
light devices with little processor like ARM9 and without GPU.
I will read your code with interest and look if I can use your library. If
I can help you, I will contact to you in few weeks.
Regards,
Marc.



2014/1/24 Michael Forney <mforney at mforney.org>

> Hi,
>
> I've been working on a Wayland compositor off and on for around a year
> now, and I think I'm now at the point where others might find it useful.
>
> swc[0] is implemented as a library, with an API[1] suitable for creating
> a window manager. It was designed primarily with tiling window managers
> in mind. Currently, it cannot move or resize windows with the mouse, so
> as of now, perhaps it is only usable by tiling window managers. This
> also means that unless you want to write the window manager piece, it
> might be tricky to try out.
>
> swc is by no means as feature-complete as weston. Most of this is
> intentional, but there are a few things that remain to be completed:
>
>     - No clipboard integration with xwayland
>     - Window state transitions still need work
>     - No DPMS support
>     - No monitor arrangement/positioning
>
> libswc itself is currently under 6k SLOC, and is also fairly lightweight
> in terms of dependencies: wayland, libdrm, libevdev, libxkbcommon,
> pixman, wld.
>
> Optionally, libudev can be used to support hotplugging of input devices,
> and xcb/xcb-util-wm can be used for xwayland support.
>
> One big difference between swc and many other compositors is that swc
> does not use OpenGL or EGL to do the actual compositing. In fact, it has
> no dependency on mesa at all. Instead, it does copies and fills using my
> basic drawing library, wld[2]. However, this means that currently, if
> you don't have an Intel GPU, compositing will fall back to using dumb
> buffers and pixman (though, if you are interested in the project and
> have knowledge about nouveau or radeon, I welcome patches!). I also may
> implement an OpenGL backend in the future.
>
> There is a bit more general information in the README.md file in the git
> repository.
>
> Last but not least, everyone likes demo videos, right?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5thcLnLHkjs&hd=1
>
> All clients featured in the video are native Wayland clients except for
> chromium and xclock.
>
> Any comments or questions are welcome. You can also find me on freenode
> under the nick tridactyla.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/michaelforney/swc
> [1]: https://github.com/michaelforney/swc/blob/master/libswc/swc.h
> [2]: https://github.com/michaelforney/wld
>
> --
> Michael Forney <mforney at mforney.org>
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