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Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by XorNot on Friday July 11, 2014 @10:49AM (#8020364)
Wayland knows the framebuffer of every application running in it. There's no reason the compositor can't export windows on a window by window basis.
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Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by aidenn0 on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:25PM (#8021324)
This is actually how Xpra (mentioned earlier) works. It creates a dummy x server and installs itself as a compositing window manager.
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