A wayland compositor based on wlroots and tinywl, written in c, packaged with nix. This is really just for me to hack on wayland.
Simply enter the nix development shell for the dependencies and run commands as normal.
nix develop
make
Or build with nix directly (without entering a dev shell)
nix build
Or immediately build and run the compositor directly with
nix run
Some recent NVIDIA drivers support GBM (required for wlroots). It should be as of experiemental driver 495.46 and stable driver 510.47.03.
If you are having some issues with the cursor showing up, try to start the compositor like this:
WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 ./tinywl -s firefox
You can run a wayland compositor by switching to a tty and launching it directly. But for debugging it is much nicer to run it embedded in your current window manager. We can set up a nice environment quite easily that will work regardless of window manager, display server, or video card. This is a way get wlroots based compositors to play nice with NVIDIA graphics cards.
kwin_wayland --xwayland --socket wayland-1 --width 1920 --height 1080
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 ./result/bin/tinywl -s alacritty
Now tinywl will be running on wayland-0, inside the kwin window. Note that it doesn't matter if you
use KDE Plasma (or litterally anything else), it's just that kwin is a mature compositor with multiple
backends that will let us run tinywl (or any other compositor/window manager) embdedded. The kwin display
will be called WL-1, as opposed to something like HDMI-A-1 if you need to access it (like from a sway
config).