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It would be nice if i could have a "bar" in labwc.
Apparently two GUI programs communicating is "a security problem" in Wayland.It would be nice if i could have a "bar" in labwc.
To be fair, from wat I remember openbox didn't have one either, I remember using tint2.It would be nice if i could have a "bar" in labwc.
in Xterm, type:How can I know the difference ?
Note there are at least 3 functional window managers : sway,river,labwc. I find sway nested within labwc interesting.
Note : labwc has no bar.
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
Possibly don't use it for anything important. From its website:
"Note: river is currently early in development. Expect breaking changes and missing features
[...]
To enable experimental Xwayland support pass the -Dxwayland option as well."
And it seems labwc doesn't support fullscreen yet. It is basically on par with TWM
Also note that they are *not* window managers. They are entire compositors which is equivalent to 1/5 the work of an Xserver. They are very large project scopes for individual developers so I can't confidently say I have much trust in them to succeed. But good luck to them. i3 and emulations like Sway are fairly poor tiling environments (even the tiny DWM has more heuristics) so it will be good to have alternatives.
Good question, and I'm not really knowledgeable enough on the subject to provide a good answer. One way that worked on Ubuntu 21.04 was to simply runHow can I know the difference ?
Note there are at least 3 functional window managers : sway,river,labwc. I find sway nested within labwc interesting.
Note : labwc has no bar.
ps -ef | grep -i wayland
, whereupon I found "Xwayland" in the output.So in labwc things like Firefox F12 (for fullscreen) or xpdf / LibreOffice fullscreen presentations work?sway within labwc. It is fullscreen enough for me.
I'm curious about the reasoning behind that statement. What makes them poor in your opinion?i3 and emulations like Sway are fairly poor tiling environments (even the tiny DWM has more heuristics) so it will be good to have alternatives.
It's "pure" Wayland. I don't have Xwayand or X.org on my main system, besides some jails running DebianI see 2 actual screenshots out of 43 posts so far. Are these "pure" Wayland or Xwayland?
This is in fact interesting... using a WSL install on win11 (win10 not supported) to slurp a KDE window out of a VM... ?Also interesting stuff: Wayland on Windows. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
Microsoft put it into their WSL subsystem along X11 and PulseAudio.