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Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by WesolyKubeczek on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:05PM (#38451307)
I think the reason for rootful XWayland to exist, and the fact that it's like 100% made by Red Hat, hints that this is why they are doing it.

But I would like to run native Wayland clients too, and have them behave in such an environment. Can a compositor be made in such a fashion that it would cooperate with XWayland and manage native clients?

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Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:09PM (#38451348)
> I think the reason for rootful XWayland to exist, and the fact that it's like 100% made by Red Hat, hints that this is why they are doing it.

I had assumed the same, but then they announced that they were discontinuing xorg-server without pointing to rootful xwayland, so I'm not sure how to read the situation.

> But I would like to run native Wayland clients too, and have them behave in such an environment. Can a compositor be made in such a fashion that it would cooperate with XWayland and manage native clients?

You can have a mix with non-rootful xwayland on a wayland compositor; that's the easy path, really. I don't know if there's a way to have a X11 window manager control Wayland windows in that kind of system, though.

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