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cage
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Wayland breaks your bad software
You... might be able to, kind of, depending on your goal... So the thing is, if all you need is a single screen (or at least, I've not run this multi-monitor) and you're just working around drivers that don't support Xorg, you can just run cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ), run xwayland on that, and run your real GUI on that. Of course, then you're skipping all the advantages of wayland except hardware/driver compatibility.
For "real" wayland, sibling comments are correct that you'd need a wayland compositor that reimplemented awesome.
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Wayland vs. X – Overview
> As a developer, I needed to port a custom Linux system to hardware that only has Wayland drivers and it was a giant pain. Wayland offers no advantage at all for that system but it broke a lot of functionality that relied on X in terms of window placement, etc.
FWIW, I've had decent luck running cage ( https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/ ), then on that xwayland, and then just ignoring wayland and running X clients. The result does still have some slight quirks, but it mostly works fine.
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The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1
That did help me find https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/wiki initially I'm here there's other going down that path. Thanks
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Emacs Is My New Window Manager
I thought this was going to be some development news with Wayland compositing going further: https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/wayland/. Maybe it's because 29.1 was on my mind with the full Wayland client support being released.
If you want to just run one application in a modern way (yes, I'm assuming you agree that Wayland is desirable), then check out https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/.
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Android Games on PC
You can run Wayland inside Xorg via cage[1] so you don't need to use a Wayland compositor.
[1]: https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
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Creating the optimal terminal-only setup
Just ran into cage, seems useful.
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What is the process called when you mask an os and have a program run. Like the ones on the McDonald's self help stations.
It's kiosk mode. Sometimes related to POS. You can use https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage (Wayland) for example.
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How to learn writing a Wayland compositor?
Maybe starting with reimplementing something like this: https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage would be the easiest?
- Running Wayland without a DE/WM?
- An Idea
cagebreak
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
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Actually functional compositors, and querying their protocol capabilities : mirroring screens
That's true for a lot of libraries, you have to maintain the code, I would treat that as a fact of life, It might be worth noting there are some projects designed to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots which might be different: cage -> used by cagebreak phoc -> used by phosh and wayfire -> used by swayfire.
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
cagebreak as far as i can tell is a one man project (it uses cage to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
I also remembered cagebreak (wayland window manager). it uses cage (which is defined as a "wayland kiosk" but might also be used as a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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EXWM and Wayland
Anyway, like you I also wanted to see how far I could go on Wayland. After trying out a number of wms I settled on cagebreak which is modeled on ratpoison. It's still in early development but worked well enough for me to give it a semi daily driver status. It works really well with emacs too, without the single-thread issue. I went for a pure Wayland experience (without XWayland as well), so I couldn't some apps I normally use - but I was able to create something quite close to my xorg setup.
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Wayland alternatives
There's cagebreak, wich is inspired by ratpoison. It's different yo hlwm, but it has the same concept of containers, but every container only have the "max" layout
- Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
What are some alternatives?
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
XQuartz - An X11 server and client libraries for macOS
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
swayhide - Window swallower for swaywm
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.