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	venam Offline \| 26-04-2021, 04:06 AM \| #31

(26-04-2021, 03:24 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: Was this renamed to Pipeworld or is this a fork? This, along with Prio are really interesting. Druden is still pretty cool on its own, but Pipeworld takes the cake.

I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, but I am looking forward to it.

This weekend I gave Arcan a try.

To put it simply, Arcan is the core backend framework and server that runs and provides the mechanism for anything else. It can take lua scripts to execute on top of it, the "main" should be found in one of these scripts which you pass to Arcan to run. Arcan has different graphical backends, from SDL, X11, to Wayland.

safespaces, durden, prio, pipeworld, are all separate lua scripts that you can run with arcan and using arcan's framework.
The only one I couldn't get running on my machine was pipeworld.

Some examples:

Code:
./arcan_sdl -T ../data/scripts -p ../data/resources ~/docu/programming/gitgot/arcan_fun/durden/durden

./arcan_sdl -w 1366 -h 768 -T ../data/scripts -p ../data/resources ~/docu/programming/gitgot/arcan_fun/safespaces/safespaces

./arcan_sdl -w 1366 -h 768 -T ../data/scripts -p ../data/resources ~/docu/programming/gitgot/arcan_fun/prio

Along with the main script you can pass a folder containing the resources and additional scripts or libraries that you need or want to access from within Arcan.

One drawback is that Arcan is kind of containarized, you can't access anything outside the resources folder, and I couldn't find a way to run external applications from within Arcan. There are ways to launch programs that support Wayland and to have an embedded X server (called Xarcan) from within Arcan but I didn't get to that yet.

Apart from this, the concept is really cool in itself, I liked it a lot. It's snappy and flexible.
Yet, I think it kind of needs more documentation and people trying it out to make it more usable on a day to day. But definitely worth looking at!