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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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88 points clircle | 2 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. krmboya ◴[20 Sep 25 03:40 UTC] No.45310118[source]▶
> When Wayland replacing X, lots of cool window managers and mini applications will be gone.

There's hope due to the recent x11 fork, xlibre. They intend to keep x11 support ongoing

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2. tristan957 ◴[20 Sep 25 15:21 UTC] No.45314108[source]▶
Application toolkits will eventually drop support for X11. GTK will remove it in GTK5. Not sure what Qt's plans are, but I'd have to think X11 support is long for this world there as well.