emersion/hello-wayland
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A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2018-08-16 · latest 2023-12-03
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…It's so bad it wouldn't be far fetched to call it sabotage. (E.g. look at the hello world: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland/blob/master/main.c it's a complete mess)
comment by sprash · 2023-12-03 · in Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022) -
…think discrete GPUs can do that as opposed to requiring an explicit transfer to video memory.) [1] https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland
comment by mananaysiempre · 2023-01-17 · in Rendering like it's 1996 – Baby's first pixel -
…it gets exponentially worse. (Also the Wayland version is not even capable to render strings.) 1.: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland/blob/master/main.c 2.: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Window_creation/X11#C
comment by sprash · 2023-01-14 · in Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor -
…How can this work correctly without changes when the Wayland color management protocol lands? [1]: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland/blob/master/main.c...
comment by magicalhippo · 2022-01-18 · in Window System X (1984) -
…And you need at least 500 more lines to implement the equivalent to a simple XGetImage() call. 1.: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland/blob/master/main.c
comment by sprash · 2021-11-03 · in How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014) -
…core contributor to wlroots) has written a dead-simple example client you can check out as well: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland
comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-08-16 · in Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C