Re: Using Openbox with Wayland

Enlightenment has been built to be a wayland compositor, so you might try
that to step outside of the DE mold. I have no idea how the experience is
tho.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Ranjan Maitra <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks again to both Dana and Ian! This will be quite a problem for me to
> leave Fedora since I have spent over 13 years on it, and have been a
> contributor also. But I will ask on Fedora's mailing list about what the
> options are, since I also do not want to get tied down by an unnecessary DE.
>
> In the meantime, if you come across some ideas on how to make this work,
> please feel free to let me/us know. I would think that there are more
> people than me who use both Fedora an a DE-less WM.
>
> Many thanks again, and best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 01:42:57 -0500 Dana Jansens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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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