Writing a Wayland Compositor, Part 1: Hello wlroots

1 · Drew DeVault · Feb. 17, 2018, midnight
This is the first in a series of many articles I’m writing on the subject of building a functional Wayland compositor from scratch. As you may know, I am the lead maintainer of sway, a reasonably popular Wayland compositor. Along with many other talented developers, we’ve been working on wlroots over the past few months. This is a powerful tool for creating new Wayland compositors, but it is very dense and difficult to understand....