Individual GNOME applications

Posted Jun 30, 2025 5:32 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Individual GNOME applications by linuxrocks123
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

> Here's my personal plan for Wayland, by the way:

So you want to run a Wayland compositor with an X11 root window in it and then use 12to11 to X11-ize your Wayland apps.

I'm sure I'll be sorry to have asked, but seriously: what the heck is (or will be) the point of this exercise? All of this cannot possibly work any better than using Wayland directly.

Individual GNOME applications

Posted Jun 30, 2025 19:06 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> I'm sure I'll be sorry to have asked, but seriously: what the heck is (or will be) the point of this exercise

<snark>I'm sure the flavor of the pixels have a richness and umami that cannot be described or replicated ;-)</snark>

jokes aside, if they want to run things that way because it makes them happy to do so, then we can just be happy that they are happy even if we don't understand or wouldn't do it that way ourselves, as long as they don't require other users to be harmed by breaking more common workflows to support their personal oddities.

Along those lines I saw a recent project called `wayback` which was for running an X11 desktop on a Wayland graphics output, which might be useful to demonstrate some of the large back catalog of interesting and unique window managers which have been created over the years to new generations of people, and might be useful for cases like this.