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# Smithay
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[](https://crates.io/crates/smithay)
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[](https://docs.rs/smithay)
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[](https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/actions)
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[](https://matrix.to/#/#smithay:matrix.org)
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[](https://gitter.im/smithay/Lobby?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
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A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
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## Goals
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Smithay aims to provide building blocks to create wayland compositors in Rust. While not
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being a full-blown compositor, it'll provide objects and interfaces implementing common
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functionalities that pretty much any compositor will need, in a generic fashion.
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Also:
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- **Documented:** Smithay strives to maintain a clear and detailed documentation of its API and its
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functionalities. Compiled documentations are available on [docs.rs](https://docs.rs/smithay) for released
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versions, and [here](https://smithay.github.io/smithay) for the master branch.
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- **Safety:** Smithay will target to be safe to use, because Rust.
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- **Modularity:** Smithay is not a framework, and will not be constraining. If there is a
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part you don't want to use, you should not be forced to use it.
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- **High-level:** You should be able to not have to worry about gory low-level stuff (but
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Smithay won't stop you if you really want to dive into it).
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## Anvil
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Like others, Smithay as a compositor library has its own sample compositor: anvil.
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You can run it with cargo after having cloned this repository:
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```
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cd anvil;
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cargo run -- --{backend}
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```
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The currently available backends are:
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- `--winit`: start anvil as a [Winit](https://github.com/tomaka/winit) application. This allows you to run it
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inside of an other X11 or Wayland session.
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- `--tty-udev`: start anvil in a tty with udev support. This is the "traditional" launch of a Wayland
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compositor. Note that this requires you to start anvil as root if your system does not have logind
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available ([consolekit support is planned](https://github.com/Smithay/smithay/issues/95)). To use logind,
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you need to activate the associated cargo feature:
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```
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cargo run --features logind -- --tty-udev
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```
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