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[ANN] Rivulet Window Manager

Haskell Community [Unofficial] April 14, 2026
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I agree. Writing a compositor is far beyond my skill level, as well, and I think it’s something to be considered far, far into the future. River is enough for now; you’re right about lofty goals tending to cause trouble for Wayland-Haskell folks. On Rivulet: I agree that the C FFI is a pain-in-the-ass. I don’t like the idea that you need to compile and install a million system packages in order to run it. I wish you could just cabal install rivulet and have things work, and the C FFI is the barrier here since you need system packages.

On ymonad: it appears to be a good-faith project, certainly interesting. Might be worth reaching out to the developer of that: @edwtjo

Let me know if you need help getting Rivulet working. I’d be interesting to hear about what system you’re on and what header is missing/etc. And you make a good point about Wayland… it was why I originally didn’t make the switch.

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