Smithay/smithay
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A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2019-04-23 · latest 2026-01-30
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…at least come from a common core written in rust that is associated with the cosmic project: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/
comment by porkloin · 2026-01-30 · in The dank case for scrolling window managers -
…of Niri is that it's a cousin to System76's cosmic desktop: they share a base compositor through https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/ . I think a big part of why Niri has been able to pull off such a polished experience has a lot to do with…
comment by porkloin · 2026-01-30 · in The dank case for scrolling window managers -
…using wl_roots but instead something called Smithay (which is not wl_roots bindings for Rust). [0] https://github.com/Smithay/smithay
comment by badsectoracula · 2024-08-28 · in COSMIC Alpha Released -
Cosmic is building on top of https://github.com/Smithay/smithay there is convergence happening on de facto wayland protocols compositors support
comment by __s · 2024-08-08 · in Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment -
…about memory safety as Rust works to give. (at least if this article is up to date [1]) [0]: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay [1]: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
comment by erk__ · 2021-12-23 · in My negative views on Rust -
…please check out smithay/anvil if you want to see decent progress on a rust wayland implementation: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay Wlroots is a bit of an extreme case as the API is mostly idiomatic to low-level C and not easy to wrap…
comment by lavabiopsy · 2021-09-06 · in Switching to the i3 window manager -
…a pretty simple one to boot. There also exists a pure Rust implementation of the Wayland protocol: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay The problem is that Rust and libwayland, the C implementation of Wayland, don't get along well, and that…
comment by ddevault · 2019-04-29 · in Giving up on wlroots-rs -
Perhaps the author meant Smithay, which, while it still depends on some C, is almost entirely Rust: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay
comment by rhn_mk1 · 2019-04-23 · in Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)