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# river
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River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime
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configuration.
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Join us at [#river](https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#river)
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on irc.libera.chat. Read our man pages and our
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[wiki](https://github.com/riverwm/river/wiki).
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*Note: river is currently early in development. Expect breaking changes
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and missing features. If you run into a bug don't hesitate to
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[open an issue](https://github.com/riverwm/river/issues/new)*
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## Design goals
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- Simple and predictable behavior, river should be easy to use and have a
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low cognitive load.
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- Window management based on a stack of views and tags.
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- Dynamic layouts generated by external, user-written executables. A default
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`rivertile` layout generator is provided.
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- Scriptable configuration and control through a custom Wayland protocol and
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separate `riverctl` binary implementing it.
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## Building
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<a href="https://repology.org/project/river/versions">
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<img src="https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/river.svg" alt="Packaging status" align="right">
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</a>
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On cloning the repository, you must init and update the submodules as well
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with e.g.
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```
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git submodule update --init
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```
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To compile river first ensure that you have the following dependencies
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installed. The "development" versions are required if applicable to your
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distribution.
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- [zig](https://ziglang.org/download/) 0.8
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- wayland
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- wayland-protocols
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- [wlroots](https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots) 0.14
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- xkbcommon
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- libevdev
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- pixman
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- pkg-config
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- scdoc (optional, but required for man page generation)
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Then run, for example:
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```
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zig build -Drelease-safe --prefix ~/.local install
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```
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To enable experimental Xwayland support pass the `-Dxwayland` option as well.
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## Usage
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River can either be run nested in an X11/Wayland session or directly
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from a tty using KMS/DRM. Simply run the `river` command.
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On startup river will run an executable file at `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/river/init`
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if such an executable exists. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is not set,
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`~/.config/river/init` will be used instead.
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Usually this executable is a shell script invoking *riverctl*(1) to create
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mappings, start programs such as a layout generator or status bar, and
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preform other configuration.
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An example init script with sane defaults is provided [here](example/init)
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in the example directory.
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For complete documentation see the `river(1)`, `riverctl(1)`, and
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`rivertile(1)` man pages.
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## Licensing
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river is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, or (at your
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option) any later version.
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The protocols in the `protocol` directory are released under various licenses by
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various parties. You should refer to the copyright block of each protocol for
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the licensing information. The protocols prefixed with `river` and developed by
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this project are released under the ISC license (as stated in their copyright
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blocks).
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