dwl - dwm for Wayland
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dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:
Easy to understand, hack on, and extend with patches
One C source file (or a very small number) configurable via config.h
Tied to as few external dependencies as possible
Getting Started:
Latest semi-stable release
This is probably where you want to start. This builds against the wlroots versions currently shipping in major distributions. If your distribution's wlroots version is older, use an earlier dwl release. The wlroots version against which a given dwl release builds is specified with each release on the release page
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