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Why can't we have a wayland server that can run different window managers like X did? That way, we only need one wayland compositor, and everyone can just write
by l72 2y ago
Why can't we have a wayland server that can run different window managers like X did? That way, we only need one wayland compositor, and everyone can just write their own window managers.
- johnny22 2y agoMir is perhaps the closest thing to that ideal that I'm aware of. Maybe arcan, but I don't know anything about the architecture
- aidenn0 2y agoTIL that Mir is not dead, but pivoted to be built on top of Wayland.
- nine_k 2y agoThis looks doable. Create a Wayland compositor that does not do visible window management itself, but exposes an API to help relatively easily port and run an ICCCM-compliant WM. This looks so obvious that it ought to have been tried.
- wongogue 2y agoThat’s what wlroots is (almost). Many wayland window managers use that to offload wayland stuff.