draftpaper
A Wayland desktop drawn as a drafting sheet: a tiling compositor in Rust (Smithay) with no bar. A live title block, lettered margins, windows tiled on the zones and parked in the margins, its own lock and login screens.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- debian
- desktop
- quickshell
- rust
- smithay
- tiling-window-manager
- +2 more
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No Draftpaper is a low-level Wayland desktop compositor written in Rust using the Smithay framework, handling direct display output, seat input, window tiling algorithms, and physical DPI/millimeter calculations. Developing a custom Wayland compositor requires specialized systems-level graphics and Linux desktop plumbing knowledge that cannot be vibe-coded.
What it would actually take: Building a custom Wayland compositor requires Rust, Smithay, and direct interaction with libinput, DRM/KMS, and Wayland protocols (xdg-shell, layer-shell). The hard part is managing complex Wayland protocol lifecycles, surface damage tracking, input grabbing, and hardware buffer management without crashing or tearing. It demands deep systems engineering expertise in Linux graphics subsystems and concurrent state management.
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Launched 90 days after the earliest competitor.
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