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It's not clear what that would solve, XWayland mostly fulfills that role already. It can't run window managers, but you wouldn't really get that everywhere from
by cycloptic 6y ago
It's not clear what that would solve, XWayland mostly fulfills that role already. It can't run window managers, but you wouldn't really get that everywhere from adding another Wayland extension either -- doing that would require a lot of additional code and the GNOME and KDE implementations wouldn't want that anyway because they have their own built in window managers. So maybe you could get a hacked up version of Weston that can run X window managers, but why bother dealing with maintaining that instead of just maintaining X? It's unlikely the X server will stop working as long as you have a GPU that supports GL or Vulkan, the glamor/modesetting driver should continue to work there.
- jude- 6y agoIn the event that I do need to use something that is Wayland-only, I'd like to have the ability to run it without breaking everything else.
- cycloptic 6y agoI don't know of any significant applications that are Wayland only. If that ever happened, someone could just make a really simple Wayland server that does the reverse of XWayland.