yarn.meff.me @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> "Someone did a thing: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114763322251054485 I’ve been silently wondering all the time if this was possible, but never investigated: Keep doing X11 but use Wayland as a backend. This uses XWayland’s “rootful” mode, which basically just gives you a normal Wayland window with all the X11 stuff happening inside of it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-Useful In other words, put such a window in fullscreen and you (more or less) have good old X11 running in a Wayland window. (For me, personally, this won’t be the way forward. But it’s a very interesting project.)"

Yarn

Someone did a thing:

I’ve been silently wondering all the time if this was possible, but never investigated: Keep doing X11 but use Wayland as a backend.

This uses XWayland’s “rootful” mode, which basically just gives you a normal Wayland window with all the X11 stuff happening inside of it:

In other words, put such a window in fullscreen and you (more or less) have good old X11 running in a Wayland window.

(For me, personally, this won’t be the way forward. But it’s a very interesting project.)

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