R&D repository for Budgie 11 bits
Research & Development repository for Budgie 11. Budgie 11 will be based on Qt and this repository will help us to flesh out some concepts and architectural requirements for the upcoming desktop work.
But yeah this will basically evolve into Budgie 11. Jump in. :P
Plan (rough)
budgie-rd-session
component. This will load XDG autostart entries and
any desktop
session components from /usr/share/budgie-session/desktop/*.desktop
We'll scope to allow multiple session types.kwin_x11
and budgie-rd-shell
budgie-rd-shell
capable of launching a terminal and exiting the sessionCore notions:
IRC: #budgie-desktop-dev on irc.freenode.net
Check the root meson.build
for build dependencies. The pkg-config
names are:
Additionally you will need development headers for KWindowSystem
, as well as
the meson
and ninja
build tools.
To install these on Solus:
sudo eopkg up
sudo eopkg it -c system.devel qt5-base-devel qt5-declarative-devel qt5-quickcontrols2-devel kwindowsystem-devel
Now, let's configure the project (set libdir to appropriate libdir for your distro):
meson build --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib64
ninja -j$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)+1)) -C build
For now, just run from git as we're not currently installing. This may change in the near future, but we'll update the README to reflect this
./build/src/desktop/shell/budgie-rd-shell
Currently we're testing integration with KWin. Note that this will break integration
in your existing Budgie desktop install (Or other non-KWin desktops). We're testing
various effects (such as blur behind) and considering it for the Wayland angle,
given the use of the KWindowSystem
KF5 module.
To temporarily switch to Kwin:
kwin_x11 --replace --no-kactivities &
If you're using bash, prepend the command with nohup
, if you're using zsh,
suffix it with an extra bang (!
) to ensure that when you close the terminal with CTRL+D
the kwin_x11
process isn't aborted.
To restore budgie-wm
, use the above hints but with this command:
budgie-wm --replace &
budgie-rd is available under the terms of the LGPL-2.1 license. This will be changed in future to a split GPL-2.0/LGPL-2.1 model to match Budgie Desktop.
Copyright © 2017-2018 Budgie Desktop Developers
Budgie Desktop is primarily authored by the Solus project which oversees the development and leadership of the Budgie Desktop to ensure the delivery of a distribution agnostic and open source Desktop Environment for everyone to enjoy and contribute to.