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Re:Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn'... by Cloudef on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:39PM (#34384842)
It already exists and its called xwayland. Most wayland compositors also have X11 WM inside them...
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Re:Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn'... by Izkata on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:05PM (#34385390)
You misunderstand: I'm not talking about the X protocol, I'm talking about some new all Wayland thing just so window managers can be separated from the other things you'd otherwise have to implement.
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Re:Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn'... by pantalaimon on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:31PM (#34385876)
I think Mir can do that
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Re:Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn'... by Cloudef on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:41AM (#34388682)
Yes and ironically Xwayland is that, but you probably want something like Arcan
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