Smithay is a modular toolkit for building Wayland compositors in Rust. Rather than a standalone compositor, it provides building blocks like protocol handlers, session backends, DRM abstractions, and input/output utilities. It supports core and extended Wayland protocols, libseat, tablets, graphics tablets, Xwayland, and more. It's mature and under active development, providing a “smithy” for compositor authors.

Features

  • Wayland protocol implementation modules
  • Support for session backends including libseat
  • Input device support including tablets
  • DRM and Xwayland integration
  • Compositor primitives: surfaces, render loops, event handling
  • MIT-licensed and mature ecosystem

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