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Smithay

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A smithy for rusty wayland compositors

Goals

Smithay aims to provide building blocks to create wayland compositors in Rust. While not being a full-blown compositor, it'll provide objects and interfaces implementing common functionalities that pretty much any compositor will need, in a generic fashion.

It supports the core Wayland protocols, the official protocol extensions, and some external extensions, such as those made by and for wlroots and KDE

Also:

  • Documented: Smithay strives to maintain a clear and detailed documentation of its API and its functionalities. Compiled documentations are available on docs.rs for released versions, and here for the master branch.
  • Safety: Smithay will target to be safe to use, because Rust.
  • Modularity: Smithay is not a framework, and will not be constraining. If there is a part you don't want to use, you should not be forced to use it.
  • High-level: You should be able to not have to worry about gory low-level stuff (but Smithay won't stop you if you really want to dive into it).

Anvil

Smithay as a compositor library has its own sample compositor: anvil.

To get informations about it and how you can run it visit anvil README

Other compositors that use Smithay

  • Cosmic: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
  • Catacomb: A Wayland Mobile Compositor
  • MagmaWM: A versatile and customizable Wayland Compositor
  • Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
  • Strata: A cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor
  • Pinnacle: A WIP Wayland compositor, inspired by AwesomeWM
  • Sudbury: Compositor designed for ChromeOS
  • wprs: Like xpra, but for Wayland, and written in Rust.
  • Local Desktop: An Android app for running GUI Linux via PRoot and Wayland.

System Dependencies

(This list can depend on features you enable)

  • libwayland
  • libxkbcommon
  • libudev
  • libinput
  • libgbm
  • libseat
  • xwayland

Contact us

If you have questions or want to discuss the project with us, our main chatroom is on Matrix: #smithay:matrix.org.