Servus!
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
To me, "Wayland Compositor" really seems to be the crux of the matter.
Unfortunately, I very much doubt that anybody will undergo the endurance
to enlarge ctwm into such a full-blown beast.
Anybody who is looking for a really *very* minimalistic compositor
might risk a look at *dwl* which is "dwm for Wayland":
[ https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl ]
based on wlroots.
I would by no means call it an "alternative" to ctwm,
and many will deeply miss ctwm's "beauty",
as already stated in a former post.
But it definitely works reliable and solid,
including XWayland and X applications,
the "usual suspects", KDE apps, ... ,
up to non-free SW like VMware Workstation.
At second glance it offers more versatiliy than it's first look promised.
Primarily, I'm running this on an otherwise pretty "stable" Gentoo workstation,
exploiting a 4-Screen ( 2 x 2 ) setup,
DPs driven by current nvidia (you are welcome to blame on me).
Also tested on-the-road_Tumbleweed_Notebook.
Packages involved ( /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords ) :
#
##################################################################################
dev-util/spirv-llvm-translator # req. by intel_clc
dev-util/intel_clc # req. by mesa
media-libs/mesa
x11-apps/mesa-progs
#
##################################################################################
dev-libs/wayland **
dev-libs/wayland-protocols **
# gui-libs/egl-wayland
dev-util/wayland-scanner **
x11-base/xwayland **
gui-apps/wlr-randr ** # guru
# <--- fetch manually
gui-libs/wlroots **
media-libs/libdisplay-info #
# req. by wlroots-9999
gui-wm/dwl ** # # savedconfig # !
shiftview # req. wlroots:0/9999
x11-libs/libdrm
dev-libs/bemenu ** #
gui-apps/foot
dev-libs/tllist # req. by foot
# gui-apps/wl-clipboard #* # <-- wl-copy wl-paste
# gui-apps/grim #* # grim -o { HDMI-0 DP-1 DP-2
DP-3 } -t jpeg -q 90
# gui-apps/slurp #* # grim -g "$(slurp)"
-t jpeg -q 90
# app-text/scdoc #* # req. by slurp
#
##################################################################################
Start alias:
alias dwl4='/usr/bin/dwl -s .../w4444'
with
$ cat .../w4444
#!/bin/bash
wlr-randr --output DP-1 --pos 0,0
wlr-randr --output DP-2 --pos 0,1440
wlr-randr --output DP-3 --pos 2560,1440
wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --pos 2560,0
For me, "shiftview" definitely is a must-have enhancement for efficiency:
https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl-patches
https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl-patches/src/branch/main/shiftview/shiftview.patch
In the hope that perhaps this might prove useful for somebody
Kind regards
Manfred
