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   Sarah Jamie Lewis (sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:37:25 JST Sarah Jamie Lewis

   Today I found some time to pick up the client side of my zero-dependency wayland project. I now have a single < 1000 line go file that can be used to create a window backed by a shm buffer, and listen to keyboard and mouse events and have it running in both my Nyctal compositor and the Weston reference compositor (video attached).

   Warning: the video is a small square that rapidly flashes random colors as I am pressing the control key.

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     Sarah Jamie Lewis (sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:37:25 JST Sarah Jamie Lewis

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     A link to the nyctal compositor source which I wrote earlier that also contains some answers to frequently asked questions like "why?"

     https://github.com/s-rah/nyctal

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     Sarah Jamie Lewis (sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:37:25 JST Sarah Jamie Lewis

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     The next step on this journey is to build a tiny terminal emulator using the client code as a base, which I can then package into a linux system I'm also piecing together (there is also a custom build system in the pipeline) and I will have the first step of a functional custom desktop linux.

     alcinnz repeated this.
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     Sarah Jamie Lewis (sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:37:25 JST Sarah Jamie Lewis

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     I've been building operating systems for fun since as long as I've been programming (see also: the 24 hours worth youtube videos where you can watch an overtired me stream real-time writing a risc-v kernel that can run doom - surprisingly popular)

     For the next one I write I'm going to have the base of a display server and apps ready to go - without any of the associated overhead, which will be lots of fun.