labwc/README.md

# labwc

Labwc is a free, stacking compositor for Wayland.

It is in early development and has the following aims:

- Be light-weight, small and fast.
- Have the look and feel of the X11 Window Manager Openbox.
- Where practicable, use other software to show wall-paper, take screenshots,
  and so on.


## Dependencies

- wlroots (>=0.10.0)
- wayland-protocols
- xwayland

Will soon depend on

- libxml2
- cairo, pango, glib

## Roadmap

- [x] Support xwayland
- [ ] Support some of openbox's rc.xml
- [ ] Support openbox themes
- [ ] Support layer-shell's background layer

## Influenced by

- [sway](https://github.com/swaywm/sway)
- [cage](https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/cage-01/)
- [wio](https://wio-project.org/)
- [rootston](https://github.com/swaywm/rootston)
- [openbox](https://github.com/danakj/openbox)

## Alternatives

The following were considered before choosing wlroots:

- [QtWayland](https://github.com/qt/qtwayland), [grefsen](https://github.com/ec1oud/grefsen)
- [Mir](https://mir-server.io), [egmde](https://github.com/AlanGriffiths/egmde)

## Configuration

### Keyboard Shortcuts

We will support rc.xml keybinds, but for the time being:

```
Alt+Escape  Exit labwc
Alt+F2      Cycle windows
Alt+F3      Launch dmenu
```

### Keyboard Layout

Set environment variable `XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT` for your keyboard layout, for
example `gb`. Read `xkeyboard-config(7)` for details.

## Integration

- Use grim for scrots

## Build

### Arch Linux

    sudo pacman -S wlroots
    git clone https://github.com/johanmalm/labwc
    cd labwc
    meson build
    ninja -C build

### Debian

```
sudo apt install \
	build-essential \
	cmake \
	libwayland-dev \
	wayland-protocols \
	libegl1-mesa-dev \
	libgles2-mesa-dev \
	libdrm-dev libgbm-dev \
	libinput-dev \
	libxkbcommon-dev \
	libudev-dev \
	libpixman-1-dev \
	libsystemd-dev \
	libcap-dev \
	libxcb1-dev \
	libxcb-composite0-dev \
	libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
	libxcb-xinput-dev \
	libxcb-image0-dev \
	libxcb-render-util0-dev \
	libx11-xcb-dev \
	libxcb-icccm4-dev \
	freerdp2-dev \
	libwinpr2-dev \
	libpng-dev \
	libavutil-dev \
	libavcodec-dev \
	libavformat-dev \
	universal-ctags \
	xwayland

# Debian Buster has an old version of meson, so we use pip3
pip3 install --target=$HOME/bin meson

git clone https://github.com/johanmalm/labwc
cd labwc
git clone https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots subprojects/wlroots

# wlroots 0.10.0 is the last version which runs with Wayland 0.16
# (which is what Buster runs)
cd subprojects/wlroots && git checkout 0.10.0 && cd ../..

meson build
ninja -C build
```

## Debug

To enable ASAN and UBSAN, run meson with `-Db_sanitize=address,undefined`