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12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server

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pmontra1 hour ago

https://sourceforge.net/p/twelveto11/code/HEAD/tree/ would be a better link. It still contains the README but it shows the sources and the timestamps, nothing more recent than November 2022. I wonder if it runs apps from the last 18 months.

Furthermore, which Wayland only apps might I want to run on my X11 desktop?

yjftsjthsd-h26 minutes ago

> Furthermore, which Wayland only apps might I want to run on my X11 desktop?

Waydroid? There aren't many Wayland-only apps, but they exist.

badsectoracula54 minutes ago

I tried it some time ago using Qt's environment variable to force the Wayland backend but Qt crashes on startup.

yjftsjthsd-h25 minutes ago

> Wayland programs will then run as regular X windows.

Well that'd be nicer than my current solution of running a whole Wayland compositor (usually cage) in a window under X. Of course, it's more work, but that is the usual tradeoff to make...

erik_seaberg18 minutes ago

Can a headless app talk GLX or EGL and render on the X server's GPU?

wkat42426 hours ago

Interesting. Until now the opposite has been more popular because there weren't many apps dedicated to Wayland but that will probably change now.