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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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88 points clircle | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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fooker ◴[20 Sep 25 03:14 UTC] No.45309967[source]▶
Why not run a virtual x session and run Xmonad inside it?

Wouldn't be lightweight or ..say.. easily GPU accelerated, but should work with some plumbing effort.

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1. mappu ◴[20 Sep 25 03:45 UTC] No.45310154[source]▶
Wayback is a new Wayland compositor that implements the X11 window manager API on top of a single rootful XWayland session: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-Wayland . XMonad should run fine inside it.

This gives you the advantage of Wayland's modern display stack and no legacy Xorg code while still running a classic X11 window manager.

The main downside is you have to run all X11-compatible apps, it's unable to manage any Wayland-native applications. But, X11 apps aren't going away any time soon, just the display server.

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2. bsder ◴[20 Sep 25 06:01 UTC] No.45310832[source]▶
The Wayback stuff is super cool. How has it not hit the front page?

I see the previous submissions, but there's just crickets in the comments.

3. Liskni_si ◴[20 Sep 25 09:41 UTC] No.45311832[source]▶
> no legacy Xorg code

This is not accurate. It runs quite a lot of legacy Xorg code actually, just without the input and video drivers.