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diff --git a/libraries/wlroots/README b/libraries/wlroots/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5d3d097da9 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/wlroots/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Wlroots is modular Wayland compositor library, +it provides backends that abstract the underlying display +and input hardware, including KMS/DRM, libinput, Wayland, +X11, and headless backends, plus any custom backends you +choose to write, which can all be created or destroyed at +runtime and used in concert with each other. +wlroots provides unopinionated, mostly standalone implementations of +many Wayland interfaces, both from wayland.xml and various protocol +extensions. + +Wlroots provides several powerful, standalone, and optional tools that +implement components common to many compositors, such as +the arrangement of outputs in physical space. +Provides an Xwayland abstraction that allows you to have excellent +Xwayland support without worrying about writing your own X11 window +manager on top of writing your compositor. +Wlroots provides a renderer abstraction that simple compositors can use +to avoid writing GL code directly, but which steps out of the way when +your needs demand custom rendering code. |