I’ve just tagged for release Vivarium 0.0.2. This is an incremental release with many small fixes following the first release announcement. Many thanks to those who tested it out and reported issues.
Vivarium is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor, with desktop semantics inspired mostly by xmonad.
Release summary
Key improvements in this release include:
- Improved CI to actually run Vivarium with different config types, catching issues with default values on different systems.
- Added cli argument parsing and initial cli interface, the Vivarium binary can now output a list of available layouts and action commands for keybinds instead of having to read the code to find them.
- Added unit tests for layout function and config loading.
- Improved XWayland popup window detection (i.e. windows that should be made floating automatically) by properly inspecting X window properties.
- Improved default config values in general and fixed issues with config loading crashing on certain missing data.
- Various minor bugfixes.
Many thanks also to Arch Linux user lmartinez-mirror for contributing an AUR package for Vivarium.
Next goals
This release has been tagged partly because I’m working to merge damage tracking. This is a key feature that will dramatically improve performance but it has the potential to introduce tricky bugs, so this release serves as a clear stable target. I hope to merge damage tracking for the next release.
Our backend library Wlroots recently tagged the new version 0.13 and Vivarium needs a little tweaking to support it. I expect to bundle this into the next release.