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David Turner 879243e370 xwm: Fix double-close
When an FD is passed to xcb_connect_to_fd(), xcb takes ownership of that
FD and is responsible for closing it, which it does when
xcb_disconnect() is called.  But the xwayland handler code also keeps a
copy of the FD and closes it via safe_close() in
server_finish_process().

This double-close can cause all sorts of problems if another part of
wlroots allocates another FD between the two closes - the latter close
will close the wrong FD and things go horribly wrong (in my case leading
to use-after-free and segfaults).

Fix this by setting wm_fd[0]=-1 after calling xwm_create(), and ensuring
that xwm_create() closes the FD if startup errors occur.
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backend backend/session: use device boot_display 2025-10-17 17:35:51 +00:00
docs render: add WLR_RENDERER_FORCE_SOFTWARE env var 2024-12-22 21:37:57 +00:00
examples fullscreen-shell: remove 2025-03-30 01:15:09 +03:00
include xwm: Fix double-close 2025-10-20 14:02:29 +01:00
protocol protocols: sync with wlr-protocols, apply non-breaking updates and doc improvements 2025-09-10 09:50:09 -04:00
render render/color: add wlr_color_transform_pipeline 2025-10-18 20:36:01 +02:00
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types scene: add software fallback for gamma LUT 2025-10-18 20:36:01 +02:00
util util/box.c: use 1/256 instead of 1/65536 in wlr_box_closest_point() 2025-10-16 13:46:27 +00:00
xcursor xcursor/wlr_xcursor: properly clean xcursor in case of realloc failure in load_callback 2024-04-18 16:47:07 +02:00
xwayland xwm: Fix double-close 2025-10-20 14:02:29 +01:00
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wlroots.syms build: simplify version script 2021-06-17 11:03:21 +02:00

wlroots

Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor; or about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway.

  • wlroots provides backends that abstract the underlying display and input hardware, including KMS/DRM, libinput, Wayland, X11, and headless backends, plus any custom backends you choose to write, which can all be created or destroyed at runtime and used in concert with each other.
  • wlroots provides unopinionated, mostly standalone implementations of many Wayland interfaces, both from wayland.xml and various protocol extensions. We also promote the standardization of portable extensions across many compositors.
  • wlroots provides several powerful, standalone, and optional tools that implement components common to many compositors, such as the arrangement of outputs in physical space.
  • wlroots provides an Xwayland abstraction that allows you to have excellent Xwayland support without worrying about writing your own X11 window manager on top of writing your compositor.
  • wlroots provides a renderer abstraction that simple compositors can use to avoid writing GL code directly, but which steps out of the way when your needs demand custom rendering code.

wlroots implements a huge variety of Wayland compositor features and implements them right, so you can focus on the features that make your compositor unique. By using wlroots, you get high performance, excellent hardware compatibility, broad support for many wayland interfaces, and comfortable development tools - or any subset of these features you like, because all of them work independently of one another and freely compose with anything you want to implement yourself.

Check out our wiki to get started with wlroots. Join our IRC channel: #wlroots on Libera Chat.

A variety of wrapper libraries are available for using it with your favorite programming language.

Building

Install dependencies:

  • meson
  • wayland
  • wayland-protocols
  • EGL and GLESv2 (optional, for the GLES2 renderer)
  • Vulkan loader, headers and glslang (optional, for the Vulkan renderer)
  • libdrm
  • GBM (optional, for the GBM allocator)
  • libinput (optional, for the libinput backend)
  • xkbcommon
  • udev (optional, for the session)
  • pixman
  • libseat (optional, for the session)
  • hwdata (optional, for the DRM backend)
  • libdisplay-info (optional, for the DRM backend)
  • libliftoff (optional, for the DRM backend)

If you choose to enable X11 support:

  • xwayland (build-time only, optional at runtime)
  • libxcb
  • libxcb-render-util
  • libxcb-wm
  • libxcb-errors (optional, for improved error reporting)

Run these commands:

meson setup build/
ninja -C build/

Install like so:

sudo ninja -C build/ install

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.