Hopalong

Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a featureset comparable to XFWM.

Design Goals

• Window managers should stay out of the user's way and be as boring as possible.

  • No wobbly windows or other complexity.
  • Simple chrome with color themes: Choose a primary color and we do the rest.
  • Designed for people who like GNU nano as a primary editor.

• Minimal resource utilization.

• Correct functionality regardless of system byte ordering (endianness).

• Built on wlroots: a rock-solid Wayland compositor framework powering other compositors such as Sway.

Screenshots

Keybindings

Default keybindings are like X:

• Ctrl+Alt+Backspace: Kill the compositor
• Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12: Switch to the appropriate VT
• Alt+Tab/Alt+Shift+Tab: Switch activities
• Alt+F4: Send close signal to focused window
• Alt+Shift+D: Toggle decorations for the focused window

Install

TODO: Document how to install this crime against humanity.

TODO

• Damage (partial rendering of the desktop)