Resources for Wayland [Window
Management](id:15f7cf6e-6e91-4c11-9233-45465e2c338c).

I'm currently using Wayland as my window manager of choice but am
wondering whether it's worthwhile - I can't track information about what
programs I'm using at what time, what keystrokes I'm using, etc -
information I'd like to have about my computer usage (but that causes
obvious security problems for userland programs)!

# How to make sure an application is not XWayland

Install Xeyes, one of the X11 demo apps. If the eyes are moving when you
mouse over the app, it's X and running on XWayland, as X is giving it
access to all of your desktop information. If they aren't, the app's
running in Wayland - the eyes don't have access.

# Resources

[Wayland book](https://wayland-book.com)

# Fixing screensharing on wayland

[share with wayland package](https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/fq1qoe/how_to_use_xdgdesktopportalwlr_to_share_the_screen/)
[loopback device for screen sharing](https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/ev3ty6/does_anyone_know_a_workaround_to_share_screen_in/)
[control video devices like a webcam](https://rmsol.de/2020/04/25/v4l2/)

These tutorials aren't as important as software that people can download that works seamlessly.
I want abstractions - configurable services that can be downloaded by anyone that will 'just work'.


# Implementation Libraries

[GitHub - swaywm/wlroots: A modular Wayland compositor library](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots)  
A C bootstrapping toolkit for building Wayland compositors. Is this
useful? I'll investigate further.

[smithay](https://github.com/Smithay/smithay)  
a tool for [Rust](id:cae43ca9-ddd4-42da-877a-6aeeb2264ae7) wayland
compositor development

- [GitHub - malcolmstill/cl-wayland: Common Lisp bindings for
  libwayland](https://github.com/malcolmstill/cl-wayland)
- [GitHub - swaywm/zig-wlroots: Zig bindings for
  wlroots](https://github.com/swaywm/zig-wlroots)