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1. Vivarium 0.0.3 release: damage tracking and wlroots 0.13 support

   I’ve just tagged for release Vivarium 0.0.3. Vivarium is a dynamic tiling wayland compositor, with desktop semantics inspired mostly by xmonad.

   Release summary

   This release has two major new features: damage tracking, and support for wlroots 0.13. There are also various minor fixes and additions, such …

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2. Thoughts on writing a wayland window manager with wlroots

   I recently released Vivarium, a dynamic tiling wayland compositor built using the wlroots library. Going from zero to compositing was interesting, there are good libraries available but everything has moved very fast in the last couple of years so it can be hard to know where to start. I especially …

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3. Vivarium 0.0.2 release: improved config handling, cli help, better CI and unit tests

   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 …

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4. Vivarium: A dynamic tiling wayland compositor

   This post is to announce the existence of Vivarium, a dynamic tiling wayland compositor.

   

   Core Vivarium features include:

   • Automatic/dynamic tiling with your choice of layouts.
   • Per-output workspaces: each monitor can switch independently through the same set of workspaces.
   • Floating windows on demand.
   • (optional) XWayland support.
   • Layer shell support, compatible …

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