# beansprout ![Single window with gaps](docs/screenshots/single-window.png) ![Tiled windows](docs/screenshots/tiled-windows.png) ## Overview A tiling window manager for the [river](https://codeberg.org/river/river/) Wayland compositor written in Zig. The window manager communicates using the [river-window-management-v1](protocol/river-window-management-v1.xml) protocol, as well as some of River's additional Wayland protocols. Beansprout uses a primary/stack tiling layout inspired by dwm with a customizable ratio and primary count. Similarly, beansprout has a 32-bit tag system, rather than workspaces. Each output has its own tags and own primary count/ratio. ## Building Requires [Zig](https://ziglang.org/) 0.15.1 or later. ### Dependencies To compile beansprout, you'll need the dependencies found below. I've listed the package names for Gentoo and Debian/Ubuntu, but they likely exist on all major distros. Needed at both build-time and runtime: | Dependency | Gentoo Name | Debian/Ubuntu Name | |--------------------|-----------------------------|---------------------| | wayland-client | `dev-libs/wayland` | `libwayland-dev` | | pixman | `x11-libs/pixman` | `libpixman-1-dev` | | xkbcommon | `x11-libs/libxkbcommon` | `libxkbcommon-dev` | | fcft | `media-libs/fcft` | `libfcft-dev` | Only needed at build-time: | Dependency | Gentoo Name | Debian/Ubuntu Name | |--------------------|------------------------------|---------------------| | wayland-protocols | `dev-libs/wayland-protocols` | `wayland-protocols` | Optional (for building man pages): | Dependency | Gentoo Name | Debian/Ubuntu Name | |--------------------|------------------------------|---------------------| | scdoc | `app-text/scdoc` | `scdoc` | #### Note for Gentoo Users Beansprout is available in my personal [ebuild repo](https://codeberg.org/bwbuhse/buhserepo) and in GURU. ### Build Build and install with: ``` zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe --prefix ~/.local install ``` Run `zig build -h` to see a list of all options. ## Usage You can either add `beansprout` to the river `init` file or directly run `river -c beansprout`. If no keybinds are configured (e.g. missing or broken config), beansprout provides fallback keybinds including `Ctrl+Alt+Delete` to exit the River session, `Super+Shift+R` to reload config, and `Super+T` to spawn a terminal. If beansprout crashes, you can use River's hardcoded `Ctrl+Alt F1`–`F12` bindings to switch to another TTY. From there, you can kill River or restart beansprout (you will need to set `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` yourself, e.g. `WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 beansprout`). ## Configuration Beansprout is configured with a [KDL](https://kdl.dev) file at `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/beansprout/config.kdl`. See [docs/CONFIGURATION.md](docs/CONFIGURATION.md) for a full reference and [examples/config.kdl](examples/config.kdl) for an example config. ## Licensing This project follows the [REUSE Specification](https://reuse.software/spec-3.3/), all files have SPDX copyright and license information and/or are listed under `REUSE.toml`. In overview: - beansprout's source code is released under the GPL-3.0-only license. - beansprout's documentation is released under the CC-BY-4.0 license. - beansprout's examples are released under the CC0-1.0 license. All licenses can be found under `LICENSES`