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Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors)

13 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2018-08-11 · latest 2021-05-28

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  1. …on HN with 14-comments a year ago[4]. [1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109 [2] https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable... [3] https://github.com/Blub/netevent [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328…
  2. …the discussion as it's taking place: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/12 https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/issues/93
    comment by majewsky · 2021-02-02 · in I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
  3. …which do not use the tiling paradigm, the most developed of which is probably Wayfire[1]. [0]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/wiki [1]: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
    comment by ddevault · 2020-10-25 · in The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
  4. …https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma... https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/tree/master/unstable
    comment by c487bd62 · 2020-07-31 · in GTK 3.99
  5. …etc. which are already supported by some window managers (e.g. Sway) and by some applications. https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols
  6. …are working on protocol extensions to make stuff like screen grabbing work consistently across WMs: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols
  7. We have designed a new Wayland protocol for this kind of apps: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable... So yes, it's possible. I'm not aware of any existing drop-down terminal using the protocol yet.
    comment by emersion · 2019-03-11 · in Sway 1.0
  8. …won't work. There are some possible replacements (e.g. [1]) but it's still a work-in-progress. [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols
    comment by emersion · 2018-08-17 · in Lubuntu Development Newsletter #9
  9. …For instance the layer shell mentioned in the article is a protocol we try to standardize [1]. [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable...
    comment by emersion · 2018-08-17 · in Lubuntu Development Newsletter #9
  10. …two of the points you brought up, namely screenshots and screen casting, via these protocols: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable... https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable... There are several…
  11. …and get started. [0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-Au... [1] https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable...
  12. …across the ecosystem. Porting DEs to use it would be a great way to help improve Wayland :) [0] https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable...
  13. …a patch [2]. It also works out the box for any wlroots-based [3] compositors, like sway [4]. [1] https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable... [2] https://github.com/minus7/redshift/tree/wayland [3]…