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Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded
Denial is a new alpha-stage Wayland compositor that embeds the Flutter engine directly rather than running Flutter as an application on top of another compositor. Built with Rust and the Smithay library, it handles Wayland protocol state, input, DMA-BUFs, and DRM/KMS presentation natively. Application buffers are imported as GPU textures via EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import with no CPU readback, and Flutter renders directly into GBM buffers for KMS presentation with no intermediate blit pass. It already supports native Wayland apps, XWayland, Steam/Proton games, multi-monitor setups, notifications, audio with per-window volume control, screen locking, screen sharing, and signed Arch Linux packages. Developers retain the standard Flutter workflow including hot reload, Flutter Inspector, and DevTools against the live desktop shell. The project uses customized Flutter Engine and Skia builds with compositor-specific optimizations targeting low and consistent frame times.
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