About

Waymonad is a Wayland compositor made with wlroots that aims to feel like xmonad.

This is a fork of Waymonad that will hopefully be merged back into https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad eventually.

Communication channels

Join us in #waymonad:matrix.org!

Running it

You must first install Nix, and after that you can run nix-shell --pure in the root of the repository. This will give you an environment with GHC, Cabal, etc.

Now you can simply run cabal run which hopefully will launch Waymonad. You can launch a program inside Waymonad by simply setting WAYLAND_DISPLAY before launching a program, e.g. env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 pavucontrol. If you're not already running a Wayland compositor, it will likely be wayland-0 instead.

Status

• It runs on wlroots 0.14.0 (latest as of now)
• It is not documented nor user friendly
• It crashes occasionally due to pointer handling bugs
• It needs some internal redesigning (see Contributing)

Contributing

Newcomers can start by trying to remove hayland/Graphics/Wayland/Scanner since it's made redundant by waymonad-scanner AFAICT, and then fixing the breakage that results in.

hsroots

hsroots needs a redesign so that it at least exposes a semi-safe interface, where you don't have to juggle pointers around like now. It also needs to run all wlroots functions from a single thread since it's not thread safe. Right now waymonad just isn't compiled with -threaded to avoid thread safety issues. The same is possibly true for hayland.

The design I'm thinking of:

• All wlroots function calls are delegated to a bound thread using a channel.
• All "wlr objects" returned from the API will be wrapped in something like an IORef Ptr.
• A signal handler on "wlr objects" will be installed onto the destroy event such that the above IORef is set to null atomically when the object is destroyed.
• There will also have to be a finalizer on this that removes the signal handler from the destroy signal handler linked list.

AFAICT there shouldn't be any thread-safety issues with the above.

You are free to help implement the above.

Troubleshooting

Try running nix-shell instead if you're having problems inside the shell. Make sure to set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and WAYLAND_DISPLAY if you do this.

If you can't get it to build, try deleting dist-newstyle each time you change something, so that you can get a clean build.