#wayland #x11 #wm
Via: https://lobste.rs/s/qd78bl/wayback_experimental_x11_compatibility
It looks like #alpine linux are developing a wayland compositor to run a rootless #xwayland instance as means of dropping X11/Xorg as packages from their repos.
This is a crying shame for me, as I happen to use #alpinelinux on my Thinkpad.
Why they just don't use cage though, is curious to me: https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
But anyway, that's their choice. Good luck to them.
But one comment which came out of the lobsters post was this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twelveto11/
Which looks to be the promise of a wayland -> bridge, providing there's any xorg packages left in repos by then. But at least it would allow you to run waylaid-only applications on any X11 WM you wanted.
I've forked the above project here:
https://github.com/ThomasAdam/waylandx
Primarily so that I didn't have to use sourceforge, or SVN.
I'm not sure why Imake was ever used, and awk for script generation -- that's just some of the minor things which I might change, along with the portals being upgraded.
It'll be about an interesting project, and I'm just pleased someone started this, without the need for others (like myself) to have to do it from scratch.