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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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84 points clircle | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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BoredPositron ◴[20 Sep 25 00:40 UTC] No.45308584[source]▶
We also got a lot of new little niche window managers. hyprland, niri, cosmic, sway, river, labwc, dwl, wayfire and vivarium which is xnomad inspired...
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1. jmclnx ◴[20 Sep 25 02:20 UTC] No.45309596[source]▶
Even still, they are very hard to work with when compared to X11.

Fvwm people are very smart and have been developing fvwm for longer than Linux have been around. From what I understand and have read, bring fvwm or creating a fvwm clone on Wayland is near impossible. Far too much work.

So we will really end up with "pigs" like Gnome3, KDE or a slew of tiling environments. None of the cool WMs like Windowmaker, fvwm, dluxbox, twm, ctwm, vtwm ....