inaban

inaban

Inaban: Nickname of “稲葉姫子 (Inaba Himeko)”, a character in Kokoro Connect. Picked her for her personality regarding reality and trust.

Dependencies

• wlroots 0.13.0+
• Wayland: wayland-server, wayland-scanner, wayland-protocols
• (lib)xkbcommon
• a checkpassword implementation

Installation

The usual make ; make install works. Running inaban as root (setuid included) is unsupported, you need to use something like seatd or {e,systemd-}logind.

Inspirations

XMonad

• Most of the shortcuts

dwm

• configuration and related code

cage, sway, rootston

• wlroots related code

Design and Goals/Non-Goals/…

Refer to:

• <./security.md>
• <./accessibility.md>

Goals

• No client side decorations, might have borders on all the boxes (rendering and hitbox, should they ever manage to differ)
• Programs wanting to have more than simply asking for a regular surface should need special permissions
  • listing of the surfaces should be something similar to a capability
  • special position/size should be completely managed by the compositor
  • resizes other than done by the compositor are denied
• If there is tiling should be powerful (like XMonad) yet simple (unlike i3)

Non-Goals

• XWayland as anything but a separated Wayland client (would recommend cage for this)