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    Phoronix: Enlightenment Starts Working On XWayland Support

    For those closely following the work on Enlightenment, there's now work finally materializing in supporting XWayland...

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    Why would Enlightenment need to work on support for XWayland.... since XWayland is supposed to be vanilla Xorg with some modifications to work under Wayland. Why would the Enlightenment libraries even be aware that they are not under normal Xorg? Does not make sense to me. Anyone care to explain?

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    • #3
      They created a loadable module of xwayland. This needed some integration with the E wayland compositor and the rest of E. And it was merged yesterday.

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      • #4
        Not in EFL/Elementary, but in the Enlightenment wayland compositor. It can run Xwayland applictions, such as Xterm. Before it could only run native Wayland applications

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        • #5
          Basically because the new E compositor was (key word) only capabable of running native Wayland applications (at least when it was run as a Wayland compositor), so any application that relied on Xorg libraries wasn't able to run under that compositor. It needed support built into it to be able to detect these kinds of applications and launch an <strike>Xserver</strike> XWayland(?) instance, if necessary, to run them in.

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