waymonad

We all love tiling window managers and most of all we love xmonad. As you may know, wayland is trying to replace X11.

This brings problems for us, since xmonad will not work with the new architecture.

This project is intended to provide a wayland based desktop which shares the ideals and experience from xmonad.

[WIP]: This is work in Progress.

There's no screenlocker/bar/background application/quality of life

Until surface-layers is in, these won't be implemented. I have no idea when that happens, so until then expect a rather barebones experience (I may implement background/simple locking if it takes too long).

If you need to lock your session: vlock or physlock can help you. This is a bit of a hassle (and not done automagically :/) but it works.

"Minor" things

• I don't have a floating layer yet. Though override redirect works.
• dmenu doesn't work! (the grab isn't supported on wayland)
• There is barely any documentation so unless you are familiar with Haskell (and preferably xmonad) this may be rather hard to get comfortable with.

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"Install" (compile and execute locally):

To test this, you need wlroots installed. This currently only builds with the new-build feature of cabal-install. stack is (not yet) supported.

• git clone --recursive https://github.com/ongy/waymonad
• cd waymonad
• [PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig] cabal new-build

For unprivileged install:

• Configure wlroots with: meson build --prefix=<your prefix>
• ninja -C build install
• PKG_CONFIG_PATH=<your prefix>/lib/pkgconfig cabal new-build

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For the little documentation there is for now:

• cabal new-haddock

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What this is NOT

• A straight upgrade path
• A reimplementation of xmonad
• A full implementation containing DRM and other backends

What this is

• Implemented in Haskell
• predictable layouting
• based on the compositor library wlroots

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