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What do you need Unicode for in a WM?

• pm215 1y ago
  In an X11 window manager, the classic use case is "printing the title of the window in its titlebar". Programs like Firefox put the current tab's title in the titlebar text, which can have any random unicode in it.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    Actually, that's an interesting question - in wayland, I think it's common to just say that windows have to draw their own ("client-side window decorations"), so the compositor could just... not handle the window titles at all?
    • RGBCube 1y ago
      Server-side declarations are a thing now & are used widely (in anything other than GNOME)
• zhengyi13 1y ago
  Window titles come immediately to mind.