silversquirl / asc

A simple (Wayland) compositor

Hi, I'm Silver

I write code. Mostly in Zig at the moment, but occasionally I'll sprinkle in some other languages here or there. My specific interests vary over time, but at present I seem to be focusing mostly on graphics and game programming.

Contact me

• Email: silver [at] squirl [dot] dev
• Discord: silversquirl

asc's Issues

Hi, how can I fix this issue?

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwlc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llua
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:25: asc] Error 1

Many thanks.

Improve Xwayland spawning

Currently, asc checks /tmp for unused .Xn-lock files, before spawning Xwayland with that display number. This is extremely vulnerable to race conditions, as an X server could start in the gap between checking the files and starting Xwayland. What's more, Xwayland has a bulit-in way to solve this: The -displayfd option.

I've tried a few times to get something working using -displayfd in Lua, but I'm running into a heisenbug: my code works fine when run interactively in a Lua REPL, but not when run in the asc config file.

At some point, I'll try to write a prototype for this in C, which may fix the issue. However, I'd rather keep Xwayland stuff out of the core, to improve tweakability and flexibility. There may come a time when we don't need Xwayland, for example, and I'd rather not have to patch asc to deal with that. Keeping all Xwayland-related stuff in the config resolves this.