Xwayland support? #60
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Is there any xwayland support? |
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There isn't, and unfortunately due to X11 being completely cursed, built-in Xwayland support is not planned at the moment. You can, however, use X11 apps on niri using Valve's gamescope (game-oriented), or by running Xwayland in rootful mode:
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i actually managed to successfully use wine through |
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Smithay already includes a XWayland support implementation, so do anvil and Cosmic can this happen in niri? |
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There isn't, and unfortunately due to X11 being completely cursed, built-in Xwayland support is not planned at the moment.
You can, however, use X11 apps on niri using Valve's gamescope (game-oriented), or by running Xwayland in rootful mode:
Xwayland
(just the binary on its own without flags). This will spawn a large black monitor-sized window, you can fullscreen it for convenience. In the next Xwayland version, it will be properly resizable, too.env DISPLAY=:0 i3
. This way you can manage X11 windows inside the Xwayland instance.env DISPLAY=:0 flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam
.