Revyv

Compositing display server and web browser client. The compositor uses OpenGL textures for window compositing, ZeroMQ for IPC and SDL for input handling. The web browser client is based on CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework).

compositor

Written in C++17, uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated rendering, Linux shared memory and ZeroMQ for inter-process communication, and SDL for mouse and keyboard event handling.

librevyv

Low-level C API used by client apps to communicate with compositor, it is implemented in C++ but it has a C ABI that makes it easier to port to other programming languages.

webbrowser

A web browser based on Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), uses librevyv to communicate with compositor.

Build

Ubuntu

(Tested on Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu)

Install CMake:

sudo apt install cmake

Install dependencies:

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libcairo-dev libzmq3-dev cppzmq-dev liblzo2-dev

openSUSE

(Tested on openSUSE Leap 15.4)

Install CMake:

sudo zypper install cmake

Install dependencies:

sudo zypper install SDL2-devel cairo-devel zeromq-devel cppzmq-devel lzo-devel

Run

Run compositor:

./compositor

Add librevyv to LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/cmake/build/librevyv

Any client app can now be started, in this case we run webbrowser:

./webbrowser --frame="200,200,1000,600" --url="https://youtube.com"
./webbrowser --frame="600,400,1000,600" --url="https://dw.com"
./webbrowser --frame="400,50,1000,600" --url="https://www.waze.com/live-map"
./webbrowser --frame="800,100,1000,600" --url="https://google.com"

Licensing

Revyv is released under the The MIT License.