Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning

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The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it’s a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering “infinite” zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace.

Nourish is designed as “a linux desktop that doesn’t limit you to your screen size.” It’s modern-focused with using the Vulkan API for rendering but can still fallback to OpenGL ES for older hardware. This compositor has been tested across the open-source AMD and Intel GPU drivers as well as the official NVIDIA drivers.

Nourish makes you use of the Wayland fractional scaling protocol as part of its zooming to help it stay accurate and blurry-free. Helping Nourish do the heavy lifting on the Wayland side is y5 as a Wayland compositor written in Rust that leverages in turn code from Smithay, WGPU, Iced, and other projects.

Those wanting to learn more about the Nourish Wayland compositor can do so via GitHub and the main project site — including some nifty visuals of Nourish in action. Binary packages are available for Fedora Linux.

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