plexyshell — PlexyDesk GPU-Accelerated Compositor
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The main display server binary. plexyshell is a bare-metal Wayland-compatible
compositor running on DRM/KMS with OpenGL SDF rendering, libinput, and the
plexy IPC protocol for zero-copy DMA-BUF client rendering.
BUILD ORDER
Module 5 of 7. All library modules must be installed first:
1. libplexy (module 1) — make install PREFIX=/usr/local
2. libplexy-event-loop (module 2) — make install PREFIX=/usr/local
3. libplexycanvas (module 3) — make install PREFIX=/usr/local
4. libplexyui (module 4) — make install PREFIX=/usr/local
DEPENDENCIES
- All 4 plexy libraries installed at PREFIX
- gcc/g++ with C++20 support
- pkg-config
- libdrm, libgbm, libegl, libseat, libinput, libudev, libsystemd
- libXcursor, libGL, libGLEW
- pangocairo, cairo, freetype2
On Debian/Ubuntu:
apt install libdrm-dev libgbm-dev libegl-dev libseat-dev libinput-dev \
libudev-dev libsystemd-dev libxcursor-dev libglew-dev libgl-dev \
libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libfreetype-dev
BUILD
make PREFIX=/usr/local
make install PREFIX=/usr/local
RUNNING
plexyshell must be started from a TTY on a system with a DRM-capable GPU.
It does not require an existing Wayland or X11 session.
LICENSE
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only — see COPYING
Copyright (C) 2024-2026 Siraj Razick