Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library.

Wlroots 0.18 released last month with [1]new Wayland protocols, support for GPU reset recovery, and other features . Labwc 0.8 is now ready to make use of wlroots 0.18 functionality for this library used by Sway and other compositors as well.

Labwc 0.8 also adds new "fullscreen" and "fullscreenForced" options to its tearing options, optionally allow keybindings when the session is locked, adding resistance when dragging tiled/maximized windows, support for renderer loss recovery, support for xinitrc scripts to configure the XWayland server on launch, support for relative tablet motion, and other features and fixes. Labwc's new renderer loss recovery support is similar to that available with Sway.

Downloads and more details on the Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 release via [2]GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.18-Released

[2] https://github.com/labwc/labwc/releases/tag/0.8.0