Wayland-on-X11 compositor bridge

[ghost]

A WoX bridge would allow X11 to run Wayland specific code, same as how XWayland allows Wayland to run X11 code. Since Wayland has multiple compositors it should be fairly straightforward to make a compositor bridge that can run code that otherwise doesn't support X11, possibly an entire DE like Gnome.

[kkmzero]

Duplicate of #110 ?

[ghost]

Duplicate of #194 ?

That one seems to be off topic. I'd like to discuss the more technical details of what would be involved and what scope is feasible for the project. I'd see it offering features that Wayland doesn't support, such as remote app streaming. It would be nice if it allows assistive devices such as screen readers for the blind to work, but I don't know how well that would work.

[HaplessIdiot]

Duplicate of #194 ?

yes its there but the issue was derailed and turned into a freebsd conversation.

[kkmzero]

yes its there but the issue was derailed and turned into a freebsd conversation.

I apologize.

[roryyamm]

We have 12to11, which oddly enough still does a decent job despite not being worked on for about three years.

[ghost]

If there's no active developers maybe we can fork 12to11 and rename it xlibre-wox and call it a day. The salt would be enough to melt the north pole

[reaperx7]

Technically, I wouldn't bother with 12on11 unless absolutely needed. I'm finding more and more issues with wayland during sessions of trying to use it than I can count. Namely mouse to screen grabbing is broken, and it's also broken on 12to11 because wayland never implemented it correctly.

[VJSLH]

I think this might be feasible if you use SDL to possibly translate api calls between x11 and wayland, as it has support for both x11 and wayland gpu calls I believe

[callmetango]

Thanks for creating this issue! I would like to move it to X11Libre Ideas · Discussions · GitHub to flesh it out further.

[reaperx7]

If we could fork 12on11 into WoX and somehow fix the mouse/screen grab problem, we could future proof X against wayland only UI toolkits.

The problem is, nothing really except a few outlying projects is wayland only.

[callmetango]

Thank you for your contribution! We currently restructured the "Ideas" discussions and accordingly this discussion will be moved to the Good Ideas For Later category.