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wlr-protocols

Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors)

7Distinct people
13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
130GitHub stars
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What it is

Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors)

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-11 10:30:15 UTC to 2021-05-28 17:09:43 UTC.

02462018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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No Wayland support[1] still. Interestingly there are "donations" being accepted & some kind of a bounty for this issue. I don't know if anyone can deem the bounty, but it looks like it might be for $2500! Wow. When this issue was opened almost 3 years ago, I think support would have been much harder, but there are wayland protocols like wlroots's wlr-virtual-pointer-unstable-v1[2] now to regularize/normalize this sort of thing. In general, there are just so so so many open issues & pull requests open. It's great software but wow, there's so many different environment's it needs to work across, & trying to maintain this project seems like a nightmare. Not cross platform afaik but I really dig the netevent[2] project linked in this thread, which is a lower-level network input forwarder. Last but not least, Barrier was discussed on HN with 1
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