Traditional Wayland compositors have a monolithic architecture that combines the compositor and window manager into a single program. This has the downside of requiring Wayland window managers to do the significant work of implementing an entire Wayland compositor as well. The new 0.4.0 release of river , a non-monolithic Wayland compositor, breaks from this traditional architecture and splits the…
Things have been a bit quiet on this blog recently. I spent most of 2023 writing my bachelor’s thesis and finishing up my degree. That’s all wrapped up now though, which means I’ve finally had time to wrap up some other things for my open source projects. River 0.3.0 The river 0.3.0 release has finally been tagged ! This one’s been in the pipeline for quite a while, it’s been over a year since…
Welcome back to my blog, it’s been a while. Over the past few months I’ve been busier with other aspects of my life than expected, hence the lack of status updates. Despite that, I’ve made progress on various fronts. Waylock 0.4.0 and Rewrite Yesterday I finally released waylock 0.4.0 which has been rewritten in Zig . It now uses the ext-session-lock-v1 protocol, which I worked on earlier this…
Hello again! It’s been nearly a month and a half since my last status update. Since I hope to fall into a monthly rhythm with these this is a decent start, look for the next one around the middle of March. I’ve also gotten a proper Atom Feed set up for this blog now for those of you using feed readers of some kind. I spent a fair bit of time over the past month an a half working on a better…
Hello all! This is my first ever status update so I’ve ambitiously decided to cover all of 2021. In the future I intend to write these updates on a monthly basis and provide a bit more detail. Since so much has happened in the past year I’ll be leaving out a lot, but here are some of the highlights. In January I spent most of my time on river , fixing bugs and implementing an experimental…
In the spring of 2020 I found myself hooked on Wayland thanks to sway but increasingly frustrated with the i3 style window management sway implements. I tried several of the other more mature Wayland compositors including hikari and Wayfire but didn’t enjoy them any more than sway. I wanted dynamic tiling window management similar to dwm but on Wayland and without dwm’s configuration through…