release of the composite manager , built using the Wayland protocol and fully compatible with the tiling window manager and the panel . The project code is written in C and is licensed under MIT. The project aims to be used on Linux and FreeBSD.
Compatibility with i3 is provided at the level of commands, configuration files, and IPC, allowing Sway to be used as a transparent replacement for i3, utilizing Wayland instead of X11. Sway allows windows to be organized on the screen logically rather than spatially. Windows are arranged in a grid that makes optimal use of screen space and allows for quick manipulation of windows using only the keyboard.
To create a full-fledged user environment, the following accompanying components are offered: (background process implementing the KDE idle protocol), (screensaver), (notification manager), (screenshot creation), (screen area selection), (video capture), (application panel), (on-screen keyboard), (clipboard management), (wallpaper management).
Sway is being developed as a modular project built on top of the library , which encapsulates all basic primitives for organizing the work of the composite manager. Wlroots includes backends for
abstracting access to screens, input devices, rendering without direct calls to OpenGL, interacting with KMS/DRM, libinput, Wayland, and X11 (providing a layer for running X11 applications on Xwayland). In addition to Sway, the wlroots library is actively used in , including and . In addition to C/C++, bindings have been developed for Scheme, Common Lisp, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python, and Rust.
In the new release:
- Work has been done to improve compatibility with the window manager
. - An option has been added to launch the application after a restart;
- A toggle has been added to choose the default method for window tiling, either tabbed or side-by-side (stacked);
- The keyboard layout switching mechanism has been refined, support for identifying input device types has been added, and a new command xkb_switch_layout has been introduced;
- Support for cursor themes has been added, with a new command xcursor_theme proposed for changing them;
- Support for pop-up windows has been added to layer-shell;
- Wayland protocol support has been implemented , designed for configuring output devices;
- Support for atomic screen settings changes via the wlr_output API has been added;
- Added configuration for calibration_matrix for calibrating touch screens;
- Several memory leaks and crash-related issues have been resolved.
Source: opennet.ru
