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// For more functional example see example/example.c

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wlc/wlc.h>

static bool
view_created(wlc_handle view)
{
   wlc_view_bring_to_front(view);
   wlc_view_focus(view);
   return true;
}

static void
view_focus(wlc_handle view, bool focus)
{
   wlc_view_set_state(view, WLC_BIT_ACTIVATED, focus);
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   static struct wlc_interface interface = {
      .view = {
         .created = view_created,
         .focus = view_focus,
      },
   };

   if (!wlc_init(&interface, argc, argv))
      return EXIT_FAILURE;

   wlc_run();
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

wlc reads the following env variables.

You can set your preferred keyboard layout using XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT.

See xkb documentation for more details.

If you have logind, you don't have to do anything.

Without logind you need to suid your binary to root user. The permissions will be dropped runtime.

Submit issues on this repo if you are developing with wlc.

As a user of compositor, report issues to their corresponding issue trackers.

You will need following makedepends:

• cmake
• git

And the following depends:

• pixman
• wayland 1.7+
• wayland-protocols 1.0+ [1]
• libxkbcommon
• udev
• libinput
• libx11 (X11-xcb, Xfixes)
• libxcb (xcb-ewmh, xcb-composite, xcb-xkb, xcb-image, xcb-xfixes)
• libgbm (usually provided by mesa in most distros)
• libdrm
• libEGL (GPU drivers and mesa provide this)
• libGLESv2 (GPU drivers and mesa provide this)

1: Also bundled as submodule. Using submodule is recommended, as updates to unstable protocols won't break build. To force building from submodule even though wayland-protocols is installed in system use CMake option -DSOURCE_WLPROTO=ON.

And optionally:

• dbus (for logind support)
• systemd (for logind support)

For weston-terminal and other wayland clients for testing, you might also want to build weston from git.

You can build bootstrapped version of wlc with the following steps.

git submodule update --init --recursive # - initialize and fetch submodules
mkdir target && cd target               # - create build target directory
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Upstream ..    # - run CMake
make                                    # - compile

# You can now run (Ctrl-Esc to quit)
./example/example

For now you can look at the AUR recipe for a example.

See the CONTRIBUTING for more information.

• ocaml-wlc - OCaml (experimental)
• go-wlc - Go
• rust-wlc - Rust

• orbment - Modular Wayland compositor
• ocaml-loliwm - Translation of loliwm to OCaml
• sway - i3-compatible window manager for Wayland

• swc - A library for making a simple Wayland compositor
• libwlb - A Wayland back-end library
• libweston - Weston as a library