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Manual tiling wayland compositor. ( Work In Progress )

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# NextWM

Manual tiling wayland compositor written with wlroots aimed to be a bspwm clone.

Note: NextWM is still a work in progress project. It won't be useable anytime soon, but when it is I will be the first one to spam screenshots of it in the readme.

## License:

The entire project is licensed as BSD-2 "Simplified" unless stated otherwise in the file header.

## Aim

I want to learn how to write wlroots compositors with this project.

## Why multiple implementations of Nextctl?

Since this project is meant to teach others, why not show people how wayland clients are written in different languages :) ?

## To-Do

- Compress man pages using zig stdlib.
- Simple inbuilt bar.
- Toplevel location data export?
- focused_wlr_output and focused_toplevel data export?

## Building

Note: All Nextctl implementations are exactly identical.

### Build Flags
- `-Dxwayland` flag enables Xwayland supoprt.
- `-Dxwayland-lazy` lazy load Xwayland (might have slightly worse xwayland startup times but reduces resource consumption).
- `-Dnextctl-rs` Compile the Rust version of Nextctl (Default is C codebase).
- `-Dnextctl-go` Compile the Go version of Nextctl (Default is C codebase).

### Depedencies

1. `cargo` (Optional. Required if you build Rust implementation of Nextctl) *
1. `go` 1.18 (Optional. Required if you build Go implementation of Nextctl) *
1. `libevdev`
1. `libinput`
1. `make` *
1. `pixman`
1. `pkg-config` *
1. `scdoc` (Optional. If scdoc binary is not found, man pages are not generated.) *
1. `wayland-protocols` *
1. `wayland`
1. `wlroots` 0.16
1. `scenefx` (Currently chasing master as there's no tagged release.)
1. `xkbcommon`
1. `xwayland` (Optional. Required if you want Xwayland support.)
1. `zig` 0.11.0 *

_\* Compile-time dependencies_

## Steps

```bash
git clone --recursive https://git.sr.ht/~shinyzenith/NextWM
sudo make install
```

## Keybind handling

Consider using the compositors in-built key mapper or [swhkd](https://github.com/shinyzenith/swhkd) if you're looking for a sxhkd like experience.

## Contributing:

Send patches to:
[~shinyzenith/NextWM@lists.sr.ht](https://lists.sr.ht/~shinyzenith/NextWM)

## Bug tracker:

https://todo.sr.ht/~shinyzenith/NextWM

## Support

-   https://matrix.to/#/#waycrate-tools:matrix.org

NextWM

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