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authorDevin J. Pohly <djpohly@gmail.com>2021-05-24 21:56:05 -0500
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- Any features provided by dwm/Xlib: simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize. Providing a built-in status bar is an exception to this goal, to avoid dependencies on font rendering and/or drawing libraries when an external bar could work well.
- Configurable multi-monitor layout support, including position and rotation
- Configurable HiDPI/multi-DPI support
+- Provide information to external status bars via stdout/stdin
- Various Wayland protocols
-- XWayland support as provided by wlroots
+- XWayland support as provided by wlroots (can be enabled in `config.mk`)
- Zero flickering - Wayland users naturally expect that "every frame is perfect"
Features under consideration (possibly as patches) are:
- Protocols made trivial by wlroots
-- Provide information to external status bars via stdout or another file descriptor
+- Implement urgent/focus-request once the xdg-activation protocol [hits wlroots](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2718)
- Implement the input-inhibitor protocol to support screen lockers
- Implement the idle-inhibit protocol which lets applications such as mpv disable idle monitoring
- Layer shell popups (used by Waybar)
- Basic yes/no damage tracking to avoid needless redraws
- More in-depth damage region tracking ([which may improve power usage](https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-reduced-power-usage-in-firefox-70-on-macos-with-core-animation/))
- Implement the text-input and input-method protocols to support IME once ibus implements input-method v2 (see https://github.com/ibus/ibus/pull/2256 and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl/pull/12)
-- Implement urgent/attention/focus-request once it's part of the xdg-shell protocol (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/9)
-Feature *non-goals* include:
+Feature *non-goals* for the main codebase include:
- Client-side decoration (any more than is necessary to tell the clients not to)
- Client-initiated window management, such as move, resize, and close, which can be done through the compositor
+- Animations and visual effects
## Building dwl