newcompositor

Nesting Wayland compositor for Sailfish OS that attempts to transparently handle xdg_shell clients. Each client window gets its own window under Lipstick. It's almost as if newcompositor wasn't there.

How to use:

1. Enable the Qt 5.15 repos:
   

   ssu ar qt515 https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/home:/rinigus:/qt515:/packaging/sailfish_latest_aarch64/
   ssu ur
   pkcon refresh

2. Install
3. Run:
   

   /opt/newcompositor/bin/newcompositor --wayland-socket-name <socket name>

4. Note the output
   

   Compositor running on WAYLAND_DISPLAY=<socket name>

5. Run applications with:
   

   WAYLAND_DISPLAY=<socket name> yourapp

How to use within a container:

1. Create a directory /run/user/100000/newcompositor
2. Add to your container config file:

   • lxc.mount.entry = /run/user/100000/newcompositor mnt/newcompositor none bind,ro,create=dir 0 0

3. Run:
   

   /opt/newcompositor/bin/newcompositor --wayland-socket-name newcompositor/wayland-0

4. Run your applications in the container with:

   QT_WAYLAND_FORCE_DPI=240 QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl WAYLAND_DISPLAY=/mnt/newcompositor/wayland-0 yourapp

   • The QT_* variables are optional but recommended for Qt apps.

TODO:

• armv7hl build
• Support for the onscreen keyboard (maybe always bring up the Sailfish keyboard on focus, then let the user hide it if he wants?)
  • Keyboard should (?) just work if the client independently has Maliit integration.
• Screen orientation
• Xwayland

Source: https://github.com/ArturGaspar/newcompositor