Vortex is a wayland compositor and renderer built from scratch depending only on the low level graphics stack composed of abstractions such ad DRM, GBM and EGL. The compositor is using Runara for its OpenGL abstraction and rendering layer. Due to the from-scratch nature of Vortex, it does not depend on any wayland abstraction library like libweston or wlroots, everything is self-implemented. Vortex is the compositor of the Ragnar desktop ecosystem.
Make sure you have the required dependencies installed (debian packages shown):
meson ninja-build libwayland-dev libdrm-dev libgbm-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libinput-dev libudev-dev libxkbcommon-dev libglfw3-dev libcglm-dev libfreetype-dev libharfbuzz-dev
Clone & build:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/cococry/vortex.git
cd vortex
meson setup build
meson compile -C build
sudo meson install -C build
To run Vortex:
./build/vortex # Start the compositor
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 weston-simple-shm # Start a simple client
Note: Use the wayland display that is logged by the output of ./vortex --verbose as the WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable when starting clients.
Use --nested to run it inside another Wayland compositor:
./build/vortex --nested