Show HN: Surf-Wayland

surf is a simple Web browser based on WebKit/GTK+.

Surf now supports native Wayland rendering in addition to X11. This provides better integration with Wayland compositors and improved security.

To build surf with Wayland support:

To build with X11 support:

If you're running in a Wayland environment, surf will automatically detect and use the Wayland backend if compiled with Wayland support.

• Window Identification: Uses instance IDs instead of X11 window IDs
• External Tools: Communicates via D-Bus instead of X11 properties
• Embedding: XEmbed is not supported on Wayland (see tabbing alternatives)
• Automation: Use surf-dbus.sh instead of xprop-based scripts

• D-Bus interface for external tool integration
• Process-based tabbing alternative
• Improved security through Wayland isolation
• Better integration with modern desktop environments

In order to build surf you need GTK+ and Webkit/GTK+ header files. For Wayland support, you also need wayland-client, wayland-cursor, and dbus-1 development packages.

In order to use the functionality of the url-bar, also install dmenu[0].

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (surf is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install surf (if necessary as root):

run surf [URI]

See the manpage for further options.

For running surf in tabbed[1] there is a script included in the distribution, which is run like this:

Further invocations of the script will run surf with the specified URI in this instance of tabbed.

For Wayland, you can use the process-based tabbing alternative:

For Wayland environments, use the D-Bus interface:

See MIGRATION.md for detailed migration instructions from X11 to Wayland.

[0] http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu [1] http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed