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To be fair, X (VcXsrv) works on Windows and (XQuartz) pre-M1 macOS.
by rhabarba 3y ago
To be fair, X (VcXsrv) works on Windows and (XQuartz) pre-M1 macOS.
- vetinari 3y agoThey do, yes. Nobody will prevent anyone trying to port Wayland compositors, either. If that's your itch, feel free to go for it. But the Wayland compositor authors will steer their software to run effectively on Linux. If that means it is difficult to port to Windows or Mac (whether because they miss dma-buf, or demand something that the native platform won't provide to non-system process), so be it.
- nolist_policy 3y agoAnd Windows apparently has a Wayland compositor for WSL
- vetinari 3y agoThey use RDP RAIL (RDP-for-a-single-window) on top of Weston, and then the resulting surfaces are managed by the DWM. Which is actually an interesting approach; linux native compositors should "steal" that idea and implement it too. It could lead to RemoteApp-alike for Linux.
- yencabulator 3y agoChromeOS transports Wayland over virtio so windows opened from virtual machines are seamlessly part of the main desktop. Waypipe proxies Wayland over SSH etc: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/