Simon's Wayland tools

This is a collection of useful tools for Wayland users, maintained by Simon Ser.

grim

A screenshot tool

mako

A notification daemon

slurp

A tool to select a region on screen

kanshi

A dynamic output configuration daemon

chayang

Gradually dim the screen

wlr-randr

Utility to manage outputs

Development resources

Hello Wayland

A minimal Wayland client, for education purposes

Writing a Wayland rendering loop

An introduction to rendering loops on Wayland

Introduction to damage tracking

An introduction to damage tracking for Wayland compositors

wleird

A collection a Wayland clients doing weird things, for compositor testing

rootston

A maintained fork of the now-deprecated wlroots compositor.

HTML documentation for Wayland protocols

Generated via wl2html.

HTML documentation for wlroots

Generated via gyosu.

Related work

I also work as a maintainer for Wayland upstream, wlroots and Sway.