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There’s nothing really stopping a wayland compositor from having and supporting a separate window manager, it’s just easier to not have it separate. Window man

There’s nothing really stopping a wayland compositor from having and supporting a separate window manager, it’s just easier to not have it separate. Window managers is a Xism that some DEs brought into the Wayland world (e.g kde) where some have not (e.g gnome). It’s worth noting that a Wayland display server has to implement far less than an X server and as the article mentions there are things like wlroots that do a large chunk of it for you.

seba_dos1 3y ago
> There’s nothing really stopping a wayland compositor from having and supporting a separate window manager, it’s just easier to not have it separate. That's why I said "most" and "usually". That said, while it's certainly possible, I haven't seen any implementation that did it yet. > Window managers is a Xism that some DEs brought into the Wayland world (e.g kde) KDE does not separate its window manager from its compositor (KWin) at all. What it separates is its shell (Plasma). In the GNOME world, mobile shell (phosh) and phoc are separated in similar way.