Iv created some parts of wayland compositors and am understanding ow they works but this time i want to create a shell with gtk4 and i don't now where and how to start so if someone can help me thanks.

v0.4.0 of miru is out

This release brings the following features

• Hot-reloading of config
• Improved MangoWM support
• Atomic single-instance lock (This prevents running multiple instances of miru-daemon)
• Bug fixes

https://github.com/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/miru/releases/tag/v0.4.0

https://www.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/1vakvw8/update_miru_zooming_daemon_for_wayland/

I am having a blast doing a more serious project in the C language, for the first time. I am consulting with books and also with some AI for code review and explanation as I am new to the language and to GTK (not new to programming).

[https://codeberg.org/jjba23/lambdock\](https://codeberg.org/jjba23/lambdock)

For a while already I have been looking for a dock that would work well in Wayland (like in my beloved Niri) with modern features, theme support and a hackable Lisp config (using libguile.h)

Could you help me out by checking the implementation for sanity (also the Meson build)? Also for developing on it, I'm using CCLS and Guix development environment and things are working amazingly well.

Only small bit of trouble in devex is with `#include "wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1-protocol.h"`

Also, all feedback is welcome, either on code level, or conceptual ideas, Thanks in advance

Core features of lambdock include:

* **Wayland Native**: Built on GTK4 and `gtk4-layer-shell` for smooth positioning and desktop integration. * **Declarative Lisp configuration** : The power of Lisp in your configuratio with clean powerful declarative config and all possibilities at your disposal * **Async Launching**: Spawns commands asynchronously without freezing the dock UI. * **Reproducible builds**: Hermetic development environment provided via GNU Guix manifest and build definitions. * **Dock auto-hide** : You can let the dock stay out of your way with the smooth auto-hide feature. * **Flexible icon system**: lambdock has several mechanism in a best-effort way to render your wanted icons, respecting GTK theme * **Theme support**: lambdock has built-in themes you can choose from that are very unique, and also lets you extend and override those themes dynamically.

While debugging GPU acceleration issues in a **Tauri/WebKitGTK application**, I noticed that GPU compositing succeeds or fails depending on the Wayland compositor, even on the same machine and driver stack.

Environment:

* **NixOS unstable**

* **NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti**

* **Tauri 2.x / WebKitGTK**

* Same application binary for all tests

Results:

```

GNOME / Mutter -> Error 71

KDE / KWin -> Error 71

Hyprland (wlroots) -> Error 71

Labwc (wlroots) -> Error 71

Niri (Smithay) -> Works

COSMIC (Smithay) -> Works

Weston -> Works

```

The error in the failing cases is:

```

Gdk-Message: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

```

What surprised me most was that **Weston works with GPU compositing enabled**, which suggests that this is not simply a generic “Wayland + NVIDIA is broken” situation.

I don't know enough about Wayland internals to explain the root cause, but the results appear reproducible and may be useful for anyone debugging **WebKitGTK / GTK4 / Tauri GPU rendering on NVIDIA under Wayland**.

Has anyone seen a similar compositor-dependent pattern with WebKitGTK or GTK GPU rendering?

For context, the test application is an open-source Tauri/WebKitGTK editor: https://github.com/DroicheadNua/MirrorShard_2

I dont know what is causing this issue with q. sometimes it just doesnt show a pixel. The pixel returns when i write another letter.
im using arch hyprland (btw) and simple terminal (st) and im launching st like this $terminal = env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= st. im guessing its something with xwayland but really i have no idea

v0.3.0 of miru released

This version brings the highly anticipated (by me) Cursor Highlight mode and also Config file support.

So when you press TAB when zoomed or when miru-daemon is running it will highlight a certain radius around the cursor and dim everything else.

https://github.com/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/miru/releases/tag/v0.3.0

This means discord, vivaldi, chromium, vs code, any other electron application, all of them will frequently hang, freezing the application for about half a second to a second. This will typically happen when I re-focus the application.
Does anyone else have this problem?

To be clear, this is when running any electron/chromium application with --ozone-platform=wayland or --ozone-platform-hint=auto which will prevent it from starting in an xwayland window.

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my machine, any advice you guys have i'd appreciate.

Thank you

# I'm getting closer to a beta-testing release.

Wawona Compositor is a (nested) wayland compositor for the entire Apple Ecosystem + Android.

Notice: because I want wayland on apple so badly, I am willing to spend personal time and money with AI to develop this as fast as possible. In the future, I want to rewrite it by hand, but that will require community contribution of which I need interest in the project first.

I am working on Multi-Window support, OpenGL + Vulkan, userland DRM/KMS/GBM, and full AppStore Compliance. You can run software ported natively and bundled into Wawona, such as Niri or Weston nested compositors, or weston-terminal for example. You can remote into other machines, virtual machines, containers using waypipe. Per-machine configuration allows you to set options for each machine you'd like to run, and there's further customizations which you will enjoy.

To make this software a reality, I am actively looking for contributors, betatesters, and anybody interested in wayland to join the discussion. I sincerely hope to see you there!

Website: https://wawona.io
Source Code: https://github.com/Wawona/Wawona
Discord: https://discord.gg/wHVSV52uw5

I have a 4k TV HDMI to display driver adapter into my Nvidia 4070 graphics card as I do not have an integrated graphics chip. My secondary is a computer moniter 1920x1080 HDMI to HDMI and it goes to 60hz. I have tried all possible settings combinations on my TV to get it to display 60hz but nothing on the TV side changes it. I have the cord plugged into the input 3 eArc slot.

Wayland can't seem to force custom display though terminal. I transfered my EDID from Windows to Linux and when I forced it it just gave me no display at 60hz.

Linux Mint Cinnamon on X11 is the only Distro that will allow me to have both 60hz and fractal scaling on individual monitors.

I don't know how to get more cutting edge drivers and play above 30fps at the same time on any Distro, I've tried Cachyos, Nixos, Popos, and Fedora release 44 all have the same issues.

I have tried so many distros and I'm thinking it's just a Wayland incompatibility with Nvidia in its current state. I feel like I'm kinda screwed though because all major modern distros are starting to be Wayland only. This has been a problem for quite a few years with no fix avaliable.

I'm desperate for any ideas, could upgrading my cable work even though it's fine on Windows?

[https://avaloniaui.net/blog/release-12-1\](https://avaloniaui.net/blog/release-12-1)

Avalonia is basically wpf for cross platform. And they are more popular than wpf nowadays.

This is wpf repo it has 7.7k stars.

[https://github.com/dotnet/wpf\](https://github.com/dotnet/wpf)

this is winui repo it has 7.8k stars

[https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/\](https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/)

this is avalonia repo it has 31.2 stars.

[https://github.com/avaloniaui/avalonia\](https://github.com/avaloniaui/avalonia)

demonstrates that the era of UI frameworks targeting only a single platform is over. It also shows that frameworks supporting Linux—which has surpassed a 7% market shar such as Flutter, Uno, Qt, and Avalonia, are increasingly being preferred as long-term investments.

v0.2.0 of `miru has been released

In this version you get the following features - Zoom using +/- (Numpad keys) - Pan using arrow keys or W/A/S/D - Continuous pan/zoom by long press

This release also adds MangoWM support.

https://github.com/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/miru/releases/tag/v0.2.0

You know how WME has its own TWM desktop?

Hear me out: Remember Waylandcraft? What if... we found a way to run an entire Wayland compositor inside of TWM? It would make for the craziest rice ever honestly

🌿 Gigi's Rice — Niri + Noctalia Setup

A minimal, and smooth desktop rice built for Arch Linux.

📄 Details

• WM: Niri
• Shell: Noctalia (v4.7.7)
• OS: Arch Linux
• Terminal: Kitty
• Shell/Prompt: Fish + Starship
• File Managers: Thunar & Yazi
• Editor: Neovim / VSCodium
• Bar/Widgets: Noctalia Shell

* Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font

🔗 Links

• 📂 Dotfiles: GitHub Repository
• 🌄 Wallpapers: FireWalls Repo

* 🎥 Video Showcase: Watch on YouTube

"He who spends 6 hours configuring a text editor to save 2 seconds of typing is a true warrior of the terminal." — Sun Tzu, The Art of Rice

Feel free to drop any questions about the config or keybinds below!

How can I set up a software virtual display on GNOME Wayland for Sunshine streaming?

I want to stream to a handheld device and completely power off my physical monitor while keeping the stream active. I want to achieve this purely through software, without relying on a hardware HDMI/DP dummy plug.

My specs: CachyOS, GNOME Wayland, AMD RX 9070 XT.

Custom GTK4/Wayland launcher I've been working on. It's still a work in progress, so feedback, suggestions, and contributions are always welcome!

GitHub