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kwinft
- What's the idea behind `kwinft`
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
You might be interested in the KWinFT project I started few years ago which aims at providing such high-level libraries in the long run.
- Not sure which WM to pick
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Batman arkham city doesn't like wayland
They have It's much much better
- Valve does what FromSoftware don’t, thanks to Steam Deck’s shader precaching update
- Independent yakuake sessions per activity?
- Quest for low latency wayland
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Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll)
Interesting. If you don't mind, I'm working on KWinFT, originally forked from KWin, and now in the process of splitting out reusable libraries for compositor creation. My goal is to provide desktop-agnostic template libraries, so might be a good fit for you.
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Sway merged the new vulkan renderer!
All I can think of is the KWinFT project, how that project benifits from this as well.
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Do I even need kwin-lowlatency any more ?
https://gitlab.com/kwinft/kwinft/-/issues/182 has the opposite
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
What are some alternatives?
kwin-lowlatency - archived - X11 full-screen unredirection and lots'a settings for KWin
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!
wlstem
XQuartz - An X11 server and client libraries for macOS
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
swayhide - Window swallower for swaywm
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
gamescope - SteamOS session compositing window manager