lambdock is a Wayland-native desktop dock application built with C, GTK4, and an embedded Guile Scheme REPL, offering deep hackability and runtime inspectability. The author details years of failed prototypes before achieving a fully functional dock that tracks windows, auto-hides, and supports fluid physics animations.
Background
Many GNU/Linux users migrating from X11 to Wayland lost feature-rich docks like Cairo-Dock and Plank, spurring community efforts to rebuild or replace them for the newer display protocol.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 28, 2026 at 06:17 PM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10