An X11 apologist tries Wayland

Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by xani_ on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:57PM (#32893055)

Maybe we should put a layer on top of wayland with all of the common stuff that DE uses funneled into common APIs. Like, all the eXtras DM needs

We could call it X-Wayland

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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by IceWreck on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:37AM (#32896545)

You mean something like wlroots ?

Sway made it initially but others are using it too. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots

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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by ColonelPhantom on Sunday September 18, 2022 @11:48PM (#32894077)

XWayland already exists and is the name for X.org running on Wayland, to enable X11 apps to run on Wayland desktops.

You may be interested to learn about wl-roots though. It's a project that I think originated from sway, and it aims to provide most of the low-level plumbing for writing your own Wayland window manager/desktop environment.

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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by xani_ on Monday September 19, 2022 @04:51AM (#32895884)

I know, twas a joke

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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by kwhitefoot on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:25AM (#32896458)

But others, less well informed than you, probably don't know about XWayland so the response is quite helpful.

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