The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it

Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by apetresc on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:50PM (#15511026)

So does that mean that if you wanted to port, say, Xmonad to Wayland, you would have to reimplement compositing logic again? (Since the existing compositing-logic implementation also handles things like window placement that you would want to override)

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Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday October 19, 2017 @03:58PM (#15511069)

In theory, yes. In practice, you could build something on top of wlroots, which does a lot of the work for you. In fact, check this out:

https://github.com/swaywm/hsroots

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Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by apetresc on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:11PM (#15518434)

Thank you for the clarifications :)

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Re:The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it by jononor on Thursday October 19, 2017 @07:04PM (#15512294)

An X window manager would likely have to be completely rewritten to work on Wayland, I doubt many of them have much abstraction of the underlying window system.

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