Re: Fluxbox and Wayland

Hi

	Fist, do not replay to a old post when starting a new thread,
copy&paste the email to a new email or remove the reference headers if
your email allows it, so it will not attach back to the old thread  :)

 On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 16:13:43 +0000, [email protected]	wrote:
> to work with Wayland?  Don't really understand window managers and X
> and compositors properly, or at all actually, so this may be a silly

	The short version is that current, X11 with 2 sides, X11 server
(where the graphic card is) and client (where the apps is running).

X11 window manager like fluxbox are client apps that manage the location
and size of windows for the X11 server to draw.

	Wayland only have one "block", closer to what it was the X11
server than to the X11 client and it is it that manage directly the size
and location of apps. The part that manage windows size, location and
other parts by default is called weston

	Porting fluxbox to wayland is replacing the weston with new code
and very little is reused from the current code as they have totally
different designs.

> So do I have to worry about Flux in future?

	I'm not a fluxbox dev, so i can not tell you if it will be
ported or not, but i can tell it would take lots of work

	On the good side, we currently have already some alternatives,
check this list of wayland replacement to weston:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#Window_managers_and_desktop_shells

good luck
higuita
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