KWin

Developer Documentation

There are several sub sides with some developer documentation:

• KWin/Hacking General development information
• KWin/Building How to build KWin from master
• KWin/Getting_Involved How You could get involved in KWin development
• KWin/Frameworks How to build KWin on frameworks and help porting
• KWin/Dependencies Dependencies of KWin on frameworks 5
• KWin/KConfigXT_Effects Project: Port Effects to KConfigXT
• KWin/KConfigXT Project: Create KConfigXT for KWin core
• KWin/Animations Project: Find all animation details in Effects
• KWin/Default_Options Default Options Project for 4.9
• KWin/Ideas Ideas for small tasks in KWin
• KWin/Environment_Variables Overview on the available environment variables in KWin
• KWin/Wayland General information about KWin and Wayland
• KWin/Wayland_Development Information for developing KWin + Wayland
• KWin/QT5 Progress on making KWin ready for QT5
• KWin/Bugzilla Information on Bug Triaging
• KWin/Class_Diagram Class Diagram of KWin
• KWin/Shadow New Shadow System
• KWin/Screen_Edges New Screen Edge Handling
• KWin/Decoration New Window Decoration API (Discussion)
• KWin/Screenlocker Moving Screenlocker to KWin (Discussion)
• KWin/GSoC/Modularization Documentation for GSoC Modularization of KWin
• KWin/GSoC/Color_Correction Information about the GSoC Color Correction project
• KWin/Mission_Statement Mission Statement for KWin (Discussion)
• KWin/Changelog_5 Changelog of new features in KWin 5
• KWin/Debugging Debugging the compositor with gdb is extra tricky, thus here a chaet sheet
• KWin/Packaging Packaging documentation in particular WRT X11 vs. Wayland
• KWin/Window_Metadata DBus protocol for passing additional window information