On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 12:59, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 11:37, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
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Also, I've been following some Qubes work recently, and it sounds like they might be interested in doing X11 over Wayland in a way that wouldn't need special compositor support (and the corresponding potential for security bugs). It sounds like it would be a lot of work though, so we'll see…
Isn't that what Sommelier and wayland-proxy-virtwl are both doing already though? There's no need for any X11 support in the host compositor with them.
Oh I didn't realise that. So the host compositor doesn't have to implement an X11 window manager and speak back to the Xserver, like it does in a normal XWayland setup[1]?
Correct; the proxy acts as the X11 window manager to Xwayland, and just talks plain Wayland to the host. In fact, I managed to work around several problems with Sway's built-in Xwayland integration by using the proxy instead, even on the host (see https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/10/30/xwayland/#bonus-features).
[1]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html#sect-X11-Application-Sup...
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