gogh

Gogh is a Wayland compositor written in Nim using the Louvre library.
It aims to be a close replacement for Hyprland, apart from the layout.

The Design Philosophy

Each window/app gets its own workspace. Their subsurfaces are floating, just as intended. This is mostly because that's how my current workflow is anyways.

Why?

I wanted to contribute to Hyprland but I don't really understand how the codebase works (I have no clue if it's actually awful, like some folks have told me or it's just skill issue on my part), so I decided to write a Wayland compositor in a language I'm very confident with, that being Nim.

Gogh will try to:

Have a readable and intelligible codebase, as much as humanly possible
Be reasonably efficient
Use POSIX APIs, not the shell
Not require a C++ compiler as an optional runtime dependency

Configuration

Gogh is configured with YAML. It can't be configured a lot right now, here's a basic configuration that launches a few things:

startup:
  exec:
    - swww init
    - swww img ~/.wallpapers/wallpaper.png
    - waybar
    - foot

Setting up keybinds

Keybinds can currently on be set up to execute commands. Dispatch commands will be implemented soon.

binds:
    - keys: "Super + T"
      exec: foot

    - keys: "Super - Alt + T" # Use `-` to guide the parser into parsing the next item as the modifier
      exec: notify-send "Hi there"

Roadmap

Get stuff rendering [X]
Keybinds [X]
Shaders for fancy effects like blurring [ ]
Animations and transitions [ ]
Touch gestures [ ]

xTrayambak / gogh