Re: Using Openbox with Wayland

In wayland there is still a WM but it's part of the compositor. Ian's right
tho Openbox isn't a wayland compositor so it won't work for you there.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Ian Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2016-12-17 23:21, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:16:34 -0800 Ian Zimmerman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > > Isn't window management the responsibility of the toolkit under
> wayland?
> > >
> > > In other words, it makes WMs "obsolete" (quotes mine).
> >
> > Sorry, I don't know what this means, because I don't really know much
> > about wayland. All I was wondering is if there will be performance
> > hits if i don't do something for OB and other WMs to work well with
> > it.
>
> It means you can't use openbox (or any other desktop-independent WM)
> with wayland at all.  It's a completely different model.
>
> You may be able to configure fedora to avoid wayland for a while, but
> given the close relationship between that distro and Gnome, it's
> probably not going to last.  At some point you'll have to choose between
> fedora and openbox.
>
> Don't blame the messenger :-(
>
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