Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.
Miriway has been tested with shell components from several desktop environments and comes with some scripts to help set up a variety of example configurations.
This is free and open source software.
At the core of Miriway is miriway-shell, a Mir based Wayland compositor that provides:
- A “floating windows” window managament policy.
- Support for Wayland (and via Xwayland) X11 applications.
- Dynamic workspaces.
- Additional Wayland support for “shell components” such as panels and docs.
- Configurable shortcuts for launching standard apps such as launcher and terminal emulator.
In addition to miriway-shell, Miriway has:
- A “terminal emulator finder” script miriway-terminal, that works with most terminal emulators.
- A launch script miriway to simplify starting Miriway.
- A default configuration file miriway-shell.config.
- A greeter configuration miriway.desktop so Miriway can be selected at login.
Website: github.com/Miriway/Miriway
Support:
Developer: Alan Griffiths
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Miriway is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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