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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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1. cosmic_cheese ◴[20 Sep 25 00:28 UTC] No.45308487[source]▶
Yeah, I’ve long had fantasies of writing a little desktop for myself next time I get a long stretch of time off, but that became much more daunting with the advent of Wayland, even when factoring in the existence of wlroots and such. It’s like going from building a bicycle to building a modern fuel injected car with an automatic transmission.