Hyprland is now fully independent, dropping wlroots (hyprland.org)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev

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With great pleasure may I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

After over 1000 comments on 6608 alone, and over 3 months of the entire process, the rewrite is done.

With it, Hyprland is no longer a wlroots-based Wayland compositor, and instead, a fully independent implementation of the protocol.

Don’t worry though, all your wlroots apps will still work.

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[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 22 points 3 months ago

Okay, but why?

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 months ago

Beef between creator of hyprland and creator of wlroots. Creator of hyprland is banned from contributing to wlroots so I guess it makes sense to not rely on software you're not allowed to modify (obviously he can fork it but he can't participate in the upstream project)

[-] qck@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 months ago

Hyprland has always been using forked wlroots

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