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A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
https://github.com/smithay/smithay

rust wayland wayland-compositor

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A smithy for rusty wayland compositors

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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](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland), the official [protocol extensions](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols), and *some* external extensions, such as those made by and for [wlroots](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlr-protocols) and [KDE](https://invent.kde.org/libraries/plasma-wayland-protocols)



Also:



- **Documented:** Smithay strives to maintain a clear and detailed documentation of its API and its

  functionalities. Compiled documentations are available on [docs.rs](https://docs.rs/smithay) for released

  versions, and [here](https://smithay.github.io/smithay) 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](https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/blob/master/anvil/README.md)



## Other compositors that use Smithay



- [Cosmic](https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch): Next generation Cosmic desktop environment

- [Catacomb](https://github.com/catacombing/catacomb): A Wayland Mobile Compositor

- [MagmaWM](https://github.com/MagmaWM/MagmaWM): A versatile and customizable Wayland Compositor

- [Niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri): A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

- [Strata](https://github.com/StrataWM/strata): A cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor

- [Pinnacle](https://github.com/Ottatop/pinnacle): A WIP Wayland compositor, inspired by AwesomeWM 

- [Sudbury](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bwidawsk/sudbury): Compositor designed for ChromeOS

- [wprs](https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs): Like [xpra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpra), but for Wayland, and written in

Rust.



## System Dependencies



(This list can depend on features you enable)



- `libwayland`

- `libxkbcommon`

- `libudev`

- `libinput`

- `libgbm`

- [`libseat`](https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd)

- `xwayland`



## Contact us



If you have questions or want to discuss the project with us, our main chatroom is on Matrix: [`#smithay:matrix.org`](https://matrix.to/#/#smithay:matrix.org).