Thanks for the great compositor

[sigma-957]

Jay has been my daily driver for over a year now and in light of the recent improvements I wanted to take a minute to say thanks for a great compositor. It's fast and feature-complete, stable and responsive even in high cpu-usage or nearly-oom scenarios. The recent inclusion of a vk renderer is a welcome addition. Keep up the excellent work.

If you came across this discussion searching Github for a Rust+Wayland (and now Vulkan) solution for sanely managing wl clients, build this project and run it, you won't be sorry.

Obligatory scrot of my Trekkified Jay.

[mahkoh]

Thank you for your kind message, it is greatly appreciated.

I wrote this compositor primarily for my own use and I have been using it exclusively for nearly two years now. While sometimes people report bugs or request features, I did not know that there were actually any users of it besides myself. The way it is configured via rust code certainly limits the potential audience.

(I am planning to allow users to configure the compositor via a toml file for the 1.0 release. This will not replace the current mechanism but be built on top of it. Advanced users will be able to use rust code as before.)

As you have noticed, I have picked up development again to prepare a first stable release. During this period, there might be an increased number of bugs. After the first release, I will periodically release new versions on crates.io from known-good commits.

[thepragmaticmero]

Adding on to the kind message @mahkoh , what I really like about this project is its ability to adopt new protocols quickly~ I'm gonna give it a really good try just for that, I was looking for a tearing protocol enabled wayland compositor/wm. This fits my use case perfectly <3. Just one more question, are there plans to add a side-scrolling functionality similar to "niri"? That's an amazing way to use a compositor, it was always weird to me how windows get resized on traditional tiling window managers like "sway". On scrolling compositors the windows never get resized (unless you wanted).

[mahkoh]

Just one more question, are there plans to add a side-scrolling functionality similar to "niri"?

It is not out of the question but I currently don't have any plans to implement such a feature.