Wayland compatibility layer

Po Lu luangruo at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 21 00:45:41 UTC 2022


Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com> writes:

> Hi, I saw this and had a couple questions. When you say "wayland compatibility
> layer" I assumed at first this was for some reason a duplicate of nested
> compositors but I think I may have misunderstood. Is this basically the
> opposite of Xwayland, e.g. allowing X to act as a wayland compositor with
> twelveto11 as the translation layer?

Yes.  It doesn't provide any window management functionality itself,
instead leaving that to the X window manager.

> Also JFYI - seeing as this is a freedesktop/x.org adjacent project you're more
> then welcome to use our gitlab instance if you'd like something a bit more
> accessible to host your code on.

Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather keep it on SourceForge for now.


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