Wayland Wall

Wayland Wall is a collection of protocols, called bricks, to create a complete desktop experience for Wayland.

The idea is copied from wayland-protocols but for protocols less likely to make it to the major DEs.

Releases

You can find releases tarballs here.

Protocols

We currently have this list of protocols:

• background This protocol will allow clients to display a surface as your screen background
• dock-manager This protocol will allow clients to dock surfaces on screen edges
• launcher-menu This protocol will allow launcher and menu clients, with a proper implicit grab
• notification-area This protocol will allow notification daemons to display their notifications using Wayland.
• window-switcher This protocol will allow privileged clients to list, switch to and close other clients surfaces

Compositor implementations

For now, these compositors are supported, with these protocols:

• Weston, in weston-wall
  • background
  • dock-manager
  • launcher-menu
  • notification-area
  • window-switcher (bare implementation, no workspaces support)
• Orbment, in orbment-wall
  • background
  • notification-area

Client implementations

• background:
  • ww-background, a simple demo (build Wayland Wall with --enable-clients and optionally --enable-images)
• dock:
  • ww-dock, a simple demo (build Wayland Wall with --enable-clients and --enable-text)
• launcher-menu:
  • rofi (experimental)
• notification-area:
  • eventd
• window-switcher:
  • rofi (experimental)