goose

Status: pre-alpha

Goose is a wayland compositor written in c and tcl/tk.

Aspired features include:

good use of wlroots (device detection, multi-monitor, screensharing, etc.)
control, configuration, hackability via tcl, json
gui hackability via tk
stacked windows by default
grouping (tabs, piles, concats)
tagging (workspace-like behavior)
marking (for quick focusing)
overview (mac’s exposé, spaces, mosaic, etc.; an extended alt-tab; a graphical configuration tool)

Terms:

input: mouse, keyboard, etc.
output: monitor, etc.
root: structure of all frames
view: visible space, contains subset of root
frame: contains windows
- tab: laid out in tabs, front window totally visible, the rest totally hidden
- pile: laid out in piles, front window totally visible, the rest partially/totally hidden
- concat: laid out flat and adjoined, all windows totally visible
window: an application’s immediate graphical representation
tag: an index on frames for visibility-toggling
mark: an index on frames for focus-toggling
get: state query (by a client)
set: state modification request (by a client)

Build

want some practice with c + tcl and shipping a complete program
tcl and tk are awesome
wayland seems to hold a bright future
yet to see a stacking wayland window manager (at least packaged for the distro that I use) that works intuitively, that works in a way that I like by default (cwm, openbox), and whose near-core behavior is easily customisable
want to experiment with seemingly cool ui, layout, ipc ideas
called “goose” because when you get tcl’d, you get goose-bumps

tcl window manager

MIT License