KWin

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Developer Documentation

There are several sub sides with some developer documentation:

KWin/Hacking General development information
KWin/Building How to build KWin from master
KWin/Getting_Involved How You could get involved in KWin development
KWin/Frameworks How to build KWin on frameworks and help porting
KWin/Dependencies Dependencies of KWin on frameworks 5
KWin/KConfigXT_Effects Project: Port Effects to KConfigXT
KWin/KConfigXT Project: Create KConfigXT for KWin core
KWin/Animations Project: Find all animation details in Effects
KWin/Default_Options Default Options Project for 4.9
KWin/Ideas Ideas for small tasks in KWin
KWin/Environment_Variables Overview on the available environment variables in KWin
KWin/Wayland General information about KWin and Wayland
KWin/Wayland_Development Information for developing KWin + Wayland
KWin/QT5 Progress on making KWin ready for QT5
KWin/Bugzilla Information on Bug Triaging
KWin/Class_Diagram Class Diagram of KWin
KWin/Shadow New Shadow System
KWin/Screen_Edges New Screen Edge Handling
KWin/Decoration New Window Decoration API (Discussion)
KWin/Screenlocker Moving Screenlocker to KWin (Discussion)
KWin/GSoC/Modularization Documentation for GSoC Modularization of KWin
KWin/GSoC/Color_Correction Information about the GSoC Color Correction project
KWin/Mission_Statement Mission Statement for KWin (Discussion)
KWin/Changelog_5 Changelog of new features in KWin 5
KWin/Debugging Debugging the compositor with gdb is extra tricky, thus here a chaet sheet