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It isn't yet, however, so feel free to either send a pull request or come back later.\n\nPlanned Features\n----------------\n\n- [X] Minimal interface besides windows, but not completely blank like rio. There should be, for example, a status bar with the current time and other useful global pieces of info.\n- [X] Ability to maximize windows. The status bar will still display, allowing it to be right-clicked to access the window management menu.\n- [ ] Ability to access the global menus from anywhere by holding a key (Super?) and clicking.\n- [ ] Window overview similar to GNOME shell's.\n- [ ] ~~Window starting system similar to rio's with terminal takeover, but with more capability for handling multi-window clients. This could be tricky, however, and will heavily depend on how far Wayland can be stretched to handle something like this.~~ This has been ditched. It isn't feasible, makes little sense on Linux, and does bizarre things with a lot of programs. 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In particular, there is currently an issue with the initialization that causes a machine attempting to run it as a proper compositor to completely lock up all input. **Do not use this as a regular compositor yet.** It should be fine to run it as a Wayland client inside of another compositor, however, if you'd like to test it.\n\n### Dependencies\n\n* wlroots v0.15\n\n### Installation\n\nInstalling kawa can be done via [the `go` tool](https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go):\n\n```bash\n$ go install deedles.dev/kawa@latest\n```\n\n### Compilation\n\nIf you would like to compile kawa without installing the resulting binary, use the following commands:\n\n```bash\n$ git clone https://github.com/DeedleFake/kawa\n$ cd kawa\n$ go build\n```\n\nPrior Art\n---------\n\n* [wio](https://gitlab.com/Rubo/wio)\n* [wio+](https://notabug.org/Leon_Plickat/wio-plus)","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdeedlefake%2Fkawa","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdeedlefake%2Fkawa","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdeedlefake%2Fkawa/lists"}