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Novice question to window manager experts: Is it possible to build browser as a window manager? Something like OS -> OpenGL -> socket -> http/websocket -> brows
by airocker 4y ago
Novice question to window manager experts: Is it possible to build browser as a window manager? Something like OS -> OpenGL -> socket -> http/websocket -> browser based desktop ? Then be able to easily port all gnu apps. RDP would be a native experience this way over the browser.
Excuse my ignorance if I am missing something here but would love to understand if there is a basic flaw in building something like this.
- BirAdam 4y agoLatency would be horrible, but you could do it. There were a few WMs/DEs that did things like that in the past.
- airocker 4y agoDo you remember which one? What do you think would be the source of latency at least in the local machine setup (not over network). Would not passing window manager commands be much faster than passing video or pixel level information?
- BirAdam 4y agoX11 is already client server and you’ll be adding more client/server. The more layers, the more latency. http://mixu.net/nwm/ http://mixu.net/nwm/ https://github.com/Manjaro-WebDad/jde https://github.com/Manjaro-WebDad/jde https://sparkylinux.org/jade-desktop/ https://sparkylinux.org/jade-desktop/ Historically, Hiweed (now Deepin) was HTML5/JS but it’s now QT based.