port awesome to arcan display server(xorg/wayland alternative and lua scriptable wayland compositor)

[ivanbalashov239]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arcan-0.6-Released https://arcan-fe.com/2020/11/24/arcan-0-6-m-start-networking/ https://arcan-fe.com/about/ http://durden.arcan-fe.com/ https://github.com/letoram/arcan https://github.com/letoram/durden

tldr

Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything between user interfaces for specialised embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments.

At its heart lies a robust and portable multimedia engine, with a well-tested and well-documented interface, programmable using Lua. At every step of the way, the underlying development emphasises security, performance and debugability guided by a principle of least surprise in terms of API design.

There are too many features to cover, but here follows an brief listing of the “basics”:

• Input devices: Keyboards, Mice, Joysticks/other game devices, Touch displays, VR headsets, Eye trackers.
• Output devices: Mixed DPI, Multi-monitor, Multi-/hotswap- GPU, Custom LED controllers.
• Audio: Streaming playback, Device capture, Sample playback.
• Network Sharing: Bidirectional VNC. Per-client Audio, Video and Input streaming.
• Video: Complex 2D hierarchies and animated transforms, 3D models, Offscreen rendering effects, GPU shaders, Picking, Streaming video Sources and Streaming Recording.
• System integration: Client state management, Suspend/Resume, Monotonic Timers, Hotplug, Load balancing, DoS protection.
• Portability: Native graphics on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. High-level graphics on OSX.
• Client support: Easy to use native APIs, Dedicated backends for Wayland, Xorg, QEmu, builtin terminal emulator and libretro.
• Display & Desktop server features: Server, Client and window manager crash recovery. Hot-pluggable custom input drivers, clipboard managers, assistive tools,

With that comes a rich set of tools for network proxying, debugging, profiling and integrating with assistive devices.

Durden is a desktop environment for the Arcan Display Server. It serves both as a reference showcase on how to take advantage of some of the features in Arcan, and as a very competent entry to the advanced-user side of the desktop environment spectrum. The basic premise is to absorb most, if not all, features from current desktop environments in a modular and configurable way - then let user selected profiles actually cherry- pick the configuration, visuals and tunning that reflects the desktop the user wants or is familiar with. Internally, it is based around a file-system like structure ("the menu") and everything else is references to paths within this structure.

https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/Ontology

[ivanbalashov239]

https://arcan-fe.com/2020/10/28/a12-advancing-network-transparency-on-the-desktop/

This article is is the main course to the appetiser that was The X Network Transparency Myth (2018). In it, we will go through how the pieces in the Arcan ecosystem tie together to advance the idea of network transparency for the desktop and how it sets the stage for a fully networked desktop.