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Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a [Wayland]
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compositor; or about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- wlroots provides several powerful, standalone, and optional tools that
  implement components common to many compositors, such as the arrangement of
  outputs in physical space.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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
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compatibility, broad support for many wayland interfaces, and comfortable
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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.

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Check out our [wiki] to get started with wlroots. Join our IRC channel:
[#sway-devel on Libera Chat].
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A variety of [wrapper libraries] are available for using it with your favorite
programming language.

## Building

Install dependencies:

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* meson
* wayland
* wayland-protocols
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* EGL and GLESv2 (optional, for the GLES2 renderer)
* Vulkan loader, headers and glslang (optional, for the Vulkan renderer)
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* libdrm
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* libinput (optional, for the libinput backend)
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* xkbcommon
* pixman
* [libseat]
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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/
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Install like so:
    sudo ninja -C build/ install
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## Contributing
See [CONTRIBUTING.md].

[Wayland]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
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[wiki]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/wikis/Getting-started
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[#sway-devel on Libera Chat]: https://web.libera.chat/gamja/?channels=#sway-devel
[wrapper libraries]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/wikis/Projects-which-use-wlroots#wrapper-libraries
[libseat]: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd
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[CONTRIBUTING.md]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md