beansprout

Overview

A tiling window manager for the river Wayland compositor written in Zig. The window manager communicates using the river-window-management-v1 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 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.

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 file at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/beansprout/config.kdl. See docs/CONFIGURATION.md for a full reference and examples/config.kdl for an example config.

Licensing

This project follows the REUSE Specification, 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