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Charn, that great city, the city of the King of Kings, the wonder of the world, perhaps of all worlds.
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Charn, that great city, the city of the King of Kings, the wonder of the world, perhaps of all worlds.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dankamongmen/charnegl
• Owner: dankamongmen
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-07-15T16:31:44.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-11-30T03:18:45.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-01T03:41:22.028Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 95.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Charn

A Wayland ZUI compositor by Nick Black ([email protected])

![image](doc/charn.gif)

>It is silent now. But I have stood here when the whole air was full of the

>noises of Charn; the trampling of feet, the creaking of wheels, the cracking of

>the whips and the groaning of slaves, the thunder of chariots, and the

>sacrificial drums beating in the temples. I have stood here (but that was near

>the end) when the roar of battle went up from every street and the river of

>Charn ran red. All in one moment one woman blotted it out forever.

>

> C.S. Lewis, *The Magician's Newphew*

## Requirements

* CMake 3.12+

* C++ development tools

* DocBook XSL and xsltproc, for man pages

* GoogleTest ()

* libconfig 1.5+ ()

* libinput 1.11.2+ ()

* libwayland 1.15+ ()

* libxdg-basedir 1.2+ ()

On Debian-derived systems, this includes:

* build-essential

* cmake

* docbook-xsl

* googletest

* libconfig++-dev

* libinput-dev

* libwayland-dev

* libwayland-egl-backend-dev

* libxdg-basedir-dev

* xsltproc

## Building

* mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && make test && sudo make install

## Configuration

A libconfig-format configuration file is used. This can be specified on the

command line using `--config filename`. Otherwise, charnrc will be used if

present in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/` should that environment variable be defined, and

otherwise in `$HOME/.config/`.

## Reading

* https://nick-black.com/blog/0014-new-directions-in-window-management-p1.html

* https://nick-black.com/blog/0015-new-directions-in-window-management-p2.html