Questions regarding dwl about dwl

[guidocella]

Yes but they also manage everything X used to do other than managing windows such as handling keyboard input and layouts, mouse input and cursors, plugging monitors, configuring them (modes, scales, transforms), user idle monitoring, power management, gamma control. Some of these are provided trivially by wlroots (1c9a0d8), others require us to write more code (like runtime output configuration which I'm attempting to implement).

[guidocella]

I don't think there is any. You can check the Arch wiki for a list of compositors: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#Compositors

[Joe23232]

Thank you mate

[guidocella]

Wayland doesn't have standalone window managers, its compositors are equivalent to X's display server + window manager + compositor.

[Joe23232]

Oh, so dwl acts like a WM?

[guidocella]

It is mostly concerned with managing windows while using wlroots modules for lower level stuff.

[Joe23232]

I see, so wlroots is the low level implementation of managing windows and dwl is a wrapper for wlroots to manage it on a higher level?

[Joe23232]

I see, thank you :)

Just one last question, do you know any alternative to dwl which is configurable in Rust?

[djpohly]

Or you could write a Rust program which outputs a config.h file and calls make. 😉