Smithay/smithay
A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
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Where it stands
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No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 499 days ago, with 155 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #21 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 1, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides modular building blocks to create Wayland compositors in Rust without enforcing a full framework.
- Offers safe, well-documented, and extensible compositor components supporting core and extended Wayland protocols.
- Use for developing custom Wayland compositors tailored to specific desktop environments or embedded systems.
- Use for integrating Wayland support into Rust-based graphical applications requiring compositor functionality.
- Use for experimenting with Wayland protocol extensions and building compositors with fine-grained control over features.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
Smithay aims to provide building blocks to create wayland compositors in Rust. While not being a full-blown compositor, it'll provide objects and interfaces implementing common functionalities that pretty much any compositor will need, in a generic fashion.
It supports the core Wayland protocols, the official protocol extensions, and some external extensions, such as those made by and for wlroots and KDE
Smithay as a compositor library has its own sample compositor: anvil.
To get informations about it and how you can run it visit anvil README
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
451+92
Open issues
291+36
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 187.8K | +2.9K | 15 | — |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 19.7K | +2.4K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 47.0K | +2.3K | 16 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 98.2K | +2.3K | 64 | 14 days ago |
| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| Smithay/smithay | 3.4K | — | 40 | 499 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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