it’s a good thing to have multiple implementations of compositors. that avoids bad practices or making compositor specific programs that wouldn’t work with other compositors.
I don’t think there are many “compositors from scratch” are there? GNOME and KDE both have their own, Cinnamon uses a GNOME fork, and almost everything else I can think of is wlroots based. The only other one I can think of which isn’t is Mir, which has been around almost as long as Wayland has.
Anyone know where the sources for this are? I can’t find many references to Wayland in the main Cinnamon repo, at least using GitHub’s search.
I wanted to check if they use wlroots for this or are writing yet another compositor from scratch.
Cinnamon uses Muffin, which is a fork of GNOME’s Mutter: https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin
it’s a good thing to have multiple implementations of compositors. that avoids bad practices or making compositor specific programs that wouldn’t work with other compositors.
I don’t think there are many “compositors from scratch” are there? GNOME and KDE both have their own, Cinnamon uses a GNOME fork, and almost everything else I can think of is wlroots based. The only other one I can think of which isn’t is Mir, which has been around almost as long as Wayland has.
There is also Weston which is the reference implementaion of a Wayland compositor.