https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

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A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
• Owner: waymonad
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2017-09-15T07:49:55.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-07-13T18:57:40.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T12:29:24.234Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Haskell
• Size: 1.66 MB
• Stars: 838
• Watchers: 72
• Forks: 38
• Open Issues: 16
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# waymonad

We all love tiling window managers and most of all we love [xmonad](https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad).

As you may know, [wayland](https://wayland.freedesktop.org/) is trying to replace X11.

This brings problems for us, since xmonad will not work with the new architecture.

This project is intended to provide a wayland based desktop which shares the ideals and experience from xmonad.

## [WIP]: This is work in Progress.

### There's no bar/quality of life

If you need to lock your session: swaylock should work perfectly fine.

Currently that's not set up in any automatic way though.

Swaybg should work, and my waymonad-clients has a somewhat usable background application.

### "Minor" things

* There is barely any documentation so unless you are familiar with Haskell (and preferably xmonad) this may be rather hard to get comfortable with.

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# "Install" (compile and execute locally):

To test this, you need `wlroots` installed.

This currently only builds with the `new-build` feature of cabal-install. `stack` is (not yet) supported.

 * git clone --recursive https://github.com/ongy/waymonad

 * cd waymonad

 * `[PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig] cabal new-build`

 

 ### For unprivileged install:

 * Configure wlroots with: `meson build --prefix=`

 * ninja -C build install

 * `PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/lib/pkgconfig cabal new-build`

 

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### For the little documentation there is for now: 

 * cabal new-haddock

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### What this is NOT

* A straight upgrade path

* A reimplementation of xmonad

* A full implementation containing DRM and other backends

### What this is

* Implemented in Haskell

* predictable layouting

* based on the compositor library [wlroots](https://github.com/SirCmpwn/wlroots)

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