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- Any features provided by dwm/Xlib: simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize. Providing a built-in status bar is an exception to this goal, to avoid dependencies on font rendering and/or drawing libraries when an external bar could work well.
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- Any features provided by dwm/Xlib: simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize. Providing a built-in status bar is an exception to this goal, to avoid dependencies on font rendering and/or drawing libraries when an external bar could work well.
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- Configurable multi-monitor layout support, including position and rotation
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- Configurable multi-monitor layout support, including position and rotation
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- Configurable HiDPI/multi-DPI support
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- Configurable HiDPI/multi-DPI support
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- Provide information to external status bars via stdout/stdin
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- Various Wayland protocols
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- Various Wayland protocols
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- XWayland support as provided by wlroots
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- XWayland support as provided by wlroots (can be enabled in `config.mk`)
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- Zero flickering - Wayland users naturally expect that "every frame is perfect"
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- Zero flickering - Wayland users naturally expect that "every frame is perfect"
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Features under consideration (possibly as patches) are:
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Features under consideration (possibly as patches) are:
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- Protocols made trivial by wlroots
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- Protocols made trivial by wlroots
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- Provide information to external status bars via stdout or another file descriptor
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- Implement urgent/focus-request once the xdg-activation protocol [hits wlroots](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2718)
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- Implement the input-inhibitor protocol to support screen lockers
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- Implement the input-inhibitor protocol to support screen lockers
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- Implement the idle-inhibit protocol which lets applications such as mpv disable idle monitoring
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- Implement the idle-inhibit protocol which lets applications such as mpv disable idle monitoring
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- Layer shell popups (used by Waybar)
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- Layer shell popups (used by Waybar)
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- Basic yes/no damage tracking to avoid needless redraws
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- Basic yes/no damage tracking to avoid needless redraws
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- More in-depth damage region tracking ([which may improve power usage](https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/))
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- More in-depth damage region tracking ([which may improve power usage](https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/))
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- Implement the text-input and input-method protocols to support IME once ibus implements input-method v2 (see https://github.com/ibus/ibus/pull/2256 and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl/pull/12)
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- Implement the text-input and input-method protocols to support IME once ibus implements input-method v2 (see https://github.com/ibus/ibus/pull/2256 and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl/pull/12)
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- Implement urgent/attention/focus-request once it's part of the xdg-shell protocol (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/9)
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Feature *non-goals* include:
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Feature *non-goals* for the main codebase include:
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- Client-side decoration (any more than is necessary to tell the clients not to)
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- Client-side decoration (any more than is necessary to tell the clients not to)
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- Client-initiated window management, such as move, resize, and close, which can be done through the compositor
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- Client-initiated window management, such as move, resize, and close, which can be done through the compositor
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- Animations and visual effects
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## Building dwl
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## Building dwl
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