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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone know where the sources for this are? I can't find many references to Wayland in the main Cinnamon repo, at least using GitHub's search.

I wanted to check if they use wlroots for this or are writing yet another compositor from scratch.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

yet another compositor from scratch

it's a good thing to have multiple implementations of compositors. that avoids bad practices or making compositor specific programs that wouldn't work with other compositors.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Cinnamon uses Muffin, which is a fork of GNOME's Mutter: https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think there are many "compositors from scratch" are there? GNOME and KDE both have their own, Cinnamon uses a GNOME fork, and almost everything else I can think of is wlroots based. The only other one I can think of which isn't is Mir, which has been around almost as long as Wayland has.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is also Weston which is the reference implementaion of a Wayland compositor.