Wayland desktop utilities daemon
Meadhall is a gathering place for multiple desktop utilities, such as the status bars, idle notifier, etc.
It is a daemon designed to centralize the communication with wayland and can be interfaced through the meadhallctl utility
Pre-alpha
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meadhall(Daemon/Main Process)- Unix Socket
- Systemd Unit
- YAML configuration support
- Individual configuration for each
$XDG_CURRENT_DEKSTOP- Merge desktop-based configuration onto default one (see
mergo)
- Merge desktop-based configuration onto default one (see
- Individual configuration for each
- Wayland features
- Idle Management
- Status Bar
- Lock Handler
- Output Management
- Power Management
- Hot-plugging & Layout Management
- Wallpaper
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meadhallctl(CLI interface)- Unix Socket communication
- Handle arguments
- Auto complete
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meadbarrel(worker processes)- Register itself on daemon process
- Unix Socket
The intended architecture for meadhall consists of a main daemon process with eventual auxiliary (child) processes (aptly named meadbarrel)
To interface with meadhall, the user will be provided with a CLI utility named meadhallctl which will support creating one-offs or on-the-fly configurations.
Nonetheless, the main interface for configuring meadhall will still be the configuration file.
By default, the configuration will be read from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/meadhall/config.yaml, unless there's a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/meadhall/$XDG_CURRENT_DEKSTOP.yaml file. In which case, both files will be merged, resulting in a configuration object that is the product of the content of both files.
There are three alternatives:
meadhallis the only process actually connected to Waylandmeadhallmanages a significant portion, but drawing onto the screen (i.e. status bars) is delegated to individualmeadbarrelprocessesmeadhalldoesn't connect to Wayland at all; instead, each Wayland feature is managed by a specializedmeadbarrelprocess
This project uses Architectural Decision Records to keep track of the architecture evolution. Refer to doc/adr/ for the list of decisions