Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.
Woodland has no reliance on any particular Desktop Environment, Desktop Shell or session. Also it does not depend on any UI toolkits such as Qt or GTK.
The main goal of Woodland is to provide basic functionality, ease of use and keeping things simple.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Screen zooming.
- Idle timeout.
- Set background image (without relying on third-party utilities).
- Multiple keyboard layouts.
- Per application keyboard layout.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Multimedia keys support.
- User-defined window placement.
- Autostart applications.
Website: github.com/DiogenesN/woodland
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Developer: Nicolas
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Woodland is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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