Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server

Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by gkbrk on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:48PM (#38448547)

I doubt it will be so hard to build. Folks build X servers for Linux, Mac and Windows right now. If anything, X will probably outlive Wayland.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by abenga on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @09:32PM (#38468657)

Building X is probably going to be trivial going into the future, yeah. Building and running future apps written for the Wayland will be a different beast though.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Se... by gkbrk on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:22AM (#38470684)

Just like there is XWayland today to make it possible to use a Wayland system with X apps, there are already similar solutions to run Wayland apps on an X system.

If you run `cage`, it will run a Wayland application in its own sandboxed window while the rest of the system runs X.

Similarly; if you run `sway` under X for example, it will start the window manager in its own window, and you can run Wayland applications inside it.

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