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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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88 points clircle | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jmclnx ◴[19 Sep 25 23:38 UTC] No.45308107[source]▶
That is the thing with Wayland, it is much harder to create a window manager for Wayland. IIRC, fvwm decided not to create a Wayland version due to the difficulty.

When Wayland replacing X, lots of cool window managers and mini applications will be gone.

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preisschild ◴[19 Sep 25 23:47 UTC] No.45308167[source]▶
There are libraries like wlroots (C) and Smithay (Rust) to be able to more easily create your own wayland compositor
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1. ux266478 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:19 UTC] No.45308420[source]▶
However the radically different architecture of Wayland may necessitate a rewrite well beyond what the maintainers of a window manager feel is easy.

Even accounting for wlroots, you're not exactly just running sed on a glob. And unfortunately, wayland didn't actually fix X's complexity problem. Arcan did, but we're not allowed to have nice things because Redhat has no taste.