Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefanos Boglou <vfxc...@gmail.com>
* Package name : libwlc Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Jari Vetoniemi <mailro...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : A compositor library for Wayland This is a compositor library for Wayland. . Wayland is a computer protocol that specifies the communication between a display server (called Wayland cimpositor) and its clients. It aims to replace X protocol soon(r). Currently only weston is packaged in Debian, this should allow easier packaging/development for window managers that depend on this library (among others an almost drop-in replacement for i3). It is a requirment for the following window managers: * orbment - Modular Wayland compositor * ocaml-loliwm - Translation of loliwm to OCaml * sway - i3-compatible window manager for Wayland * way-cooler - customizeable window manager written in Rust There are bindings for the following languages: * ocaml-wlc - OCaml (experimental) * go-wlc - Go * rust-wlc - Rust Similar projects: * swc - A library for making a simple Wayland compositor * libwlb - A Wayland back-end library * libweston - Weston as a library The official name is "wlc" but wlc name is taken by another package not related to this one.
