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Finally tested wayback with dwm on Slackware -current! πŸŽ‰

wayback is a stub Wayland compositor that hosts a rootful Xwayland server, letting you run your full X11 setup unchanged on top of Wayland. Built from source, wrote a small launch script and dwm came up fine with st.

Still experimental and needs some tweaking but the core concept works β€” keep your dwm, st and all your suckless tools, just drop Xorg underneath.

If you're a minimalist X11 user not ready to jump to a Wayland WM, keep an eye on this project!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback

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X11 compatibility layer leveraging wlroots and Xwayland

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Show threadKen Milmore14h ago
@r1w1s1 Ooh thanks, top tip!
Show threadDaniel Wayne Armstrong11h ago
@r1w1s1 How cool is that?!
Show threadr1w1s110h ago
Very cool indeed! Built from source on Slackware -current, all dependencies already shipped by Patrick. dwm, st and dmenu_run worked out of the box. Still needs some tweaking but very promising for suckless users who want to drop Xorg without changing their setup!
Show thread一色いろは 10h ago

Wayback is just a unfinished X11.
It supports less hardwares, lacks basic settings like dpms, and it crashes randomly.

If you can't leave X11, just use Xorg.
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Show threadr1w1s110m ago
I mentioned it's experimental in my post :) The goal isn't to replace Xorg today but to eventually drop it while keeping X11 apps working. DPMS is already on the 1.0 roadmap. Just sharing early findings!