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SametSisartenep

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LXDE + Wayland

Hello everyone. I've been using LXDE with Xorg's X11 since the first time I installed ArchLinux. I was wondering if I could switch Xorg by Wayland, and still be able to run Openbox and LXDE on top of Weston.

Thank you in advance.

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blackout23

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Re: LXDE + Wayland

No. Wayland isn't a drop-in replacement for Xorg and never will be. There are no window managers like Openbox, because that's just another X11 client which reads out and modifies the properties of other X11 clients (windows) in a predefined way. Since that's extremely insecure window management is handled by the compositor in the wayland world.
You can try to launch lxde-panel (which is basically all lxde is) on weston, but it will either not work because the toolkit it is written in doesn't have a wayland backend or it will crash because it does X calls or weston won't know where to put it and how to handle a panel.

Last edited by blackout23 (2015-07-20 00:27:25)

SametSisartenep

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Re: LXDE + Wayland

Thanks for your answer, blackout23.

What would you recommend me to do? In order to use Wayland properly.
I think maybe some other DE, like Enlightenment, could run on Wayland. (?)

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If you were standing at arm's length from someone and each of you had one percent more electrons than protons, the repelling force would be incredible. How great? Enough to lift the Empire State Building? No! To lift Mount Everest? No! The repulsion would be enough to lift a "weight" equal to that of the entire earth! -- Feynman Lectures On Physics.

txus

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Re: LXDE + Wayland

I think your best bet for Wayland right now is Gnome. It has most features of all, has been shipping with Wayland support for quite a while already, and is being actively pushed by the Fedora/Red Hat guys, so it should be more polished than the rest. (Sidenote: I'm an XFCE user, not a Gnome fanboy, so this is how I feel things currently are)

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SametSisartenep

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Re: LXDE + Wayland

Thank you ;-)

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If you were standing at arm's length from someone and each of you had one percent more electrons than protons, the repelling force would be incredible. How great? Enough to lift the Empire State Building? No! To lift Mount Everest? No! The repulsion would be enough to lift a "weight" equal to that of the entire earth! -- Feynman Lectures On Physics.

blackout23

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Re: LXDE + Wayland

Yes Gnome has the best Wayland implementation at the moment. Unfortunately in 3.16 copy/paste between Wayland applications and Xwayland application (legacy X support) doesn't work, but that's already enabled in the development snapshot. So Gnome 3.18 will be even better.