#compositors

2025-07-20

#wayland #compositors #hikari

So I've slowly been trying to resurrect hikari -- a cwm(1)-like compositor for #wayland, written by @acmelabs but hasn't received any love.

hikari.acmelabs.space/

I know that darts is preferred. but... fuck that.

I've moved it over to git (history intact), and mirrored things here:

github.com/ThomasAdam/hikari

In trying to drag this thing free of dust, I've been working on a few things:

1) Use meson to build
2) Upgrade wlroots from the support 0.15 version to 0.18

Guess how point 2 is going...

Abysmally.

github.com/ThomasAdam/hikari/t

So far, I'm at 0.16, working on 0.17. The end goal is 0.18 support.

#wlroots is great to wrap up the so-called boilerplate, but it's an absolute joke for developers trying to hop from release-to-release. The documentation sucks, the rationale is non-existent for changes made, and I've had to build each 0.X release to then `git-diff` between the releases.

wlroots needs to do a lot better at not fucking with the API so much -- and if they must -- they must do better to document where the changes are breaking, why, and what the expected fix is.

I shouldn't have to `git diff` releases to determine this.

2025-03-25

Hey Fediverse, i need to switch away from Hyprland. It is getting worse every month and the maintainer is a transphobic asshole. Also i now have glitchy pixel artifacts everywhere. So i am currently checking the alternatives. But i have some questions:

What is currently the best alternative compositor to hyprland that has the most feature parity? I wan´t a config based one and don´t want to write code to configure my compositor. My config is not that complicated.

Also i use those hyprland related packages. Do you know any alternatives?
- hyprpicker
- hyprcursor
- hypridle
- hyprlock
- hyprshot

Thank you in advance!
​:boost_animated:​
#hyprland #transphobic #sway #compositor #compositors #wayland #fedihelp

2025-01-15

Are there any tiling #Wayland #compositors that work well with the proprietary #Nvidia drivers? #Wlroots insists Nvidia doesn't work well with it, and I'm looking to switch my desktop off of KDE.

Xavier Pagès-Corella 🎶 ✍xpagescorella@mastodont.cat
2024-05-10

M'ha fet molta il·lusió compartir programa amb el Salvador Pueyo, amb qui vaig passar incomptables hores aprenent composició i orquestració al Conservatori del Liceu.

Ha estat un concert emocionant i demà a les 17h hi tornem a l'Església de Sant Bosco (Barcelona)! Vindreu?

#coposició #compositors #composición #composerslife #vidadecompositor #conductor #director #vidadedirector #conductorslife

2024-05-09

#Kwin on #Wayland with Wayland clients is the smoothest UI experience I've ever had, except for #WindowsPhone . It's way faster than X. Before now I thought DWM.exe on destop #Windows was as smooth as a compositing desktop window manager server could be, but it's not. #Xwayland will have major issues on #Nvidia until next week, though. Driver 555 should fix the flickering since it adds explicit sync support, but there could be more stuff to do.

#X11 #XOrg #KDE #PlasmaDesktop #compositors

Xavier Pagès-Corella 🎶 ✍xpagescorella@mastodont.cat
2024-01-28

Bonic record del concert de dissabte amb els protagonistes del concert, la Kalina Macuta i el Daniel Blanch, i els estimats col·legues Salvador Brotons, Marc Migó i Josep Ferré.

#composició #compositors #tinnitus #violí #violíipiano #santcugatdelvalles #santcugat #concert

2023-12-19

:linux: Linux display server area is getting modernized (even futurized) via WAYLAND - but did you know - there's an alternative also for that :thinkergunsunglasses:

ARCAN provides a display server paired with a real-time framework for audio & video - FUNDING HAS BEEN ARRANGED 💰 ✅

◉Crisp rendering on HiDPI displays
◉Smooth graphics performance
◉DPI-settings respected (per display)

arcan-fe.com/2023/12/19/arcan-

#Arco #display #server #compositors #windowing #development #Wayland #Linux

2023-08-19

Have people here made good experiences with #wayland based #compositors in conjunction with #gaming, BESIDES gnome/plasma wayland sessions? Looking at #labwc #hyprland #sway #riverwm am not sure how well a #tiling wm will work with gaming. But as long as you can create rules to exclude gaming windows from tiling, it should be fine?

The VFX Artists Podcastthevfxartistspod@mograph.social
2023-07-03

#Compositors New interview with the author of "The Art and Science of Digital Compositing", Ron Brinkmann
youtu.be/TU4XBeMBEmQ

The VFX Artists Podcastthevfxartistspod@mograph.social
2023-07-02

#Compositors! Who here used Shake?

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