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by baldfat 3407 days ago
Not happening according to github repo. https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/38

"Not happening, because xmonad is too tightly tied to X11. No matter how hard you try, the result would not be compatible with xmonad, its contribs, or any configs.

Significant parts of xmonad are also not applicable to Weston because they are no longer part of the window manager component; they were moved to the compositor or application level themes, etc."

i3 has sway http://swaywm.org/

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, and a few extras.

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Sway is a great project. I use it on a laptop with Intel graphics. I've tried to use it elsewhere, but I've found that the limiting factor is everything else -- applications that are still using X11 (supported under Wayland but often with surprising behavior), drivers that don't support Wayland, or don't support it properly, and the general immaturity of the Wayland world. Wayland is the graphics equivalent of PulseAudio circa 2009: clearly the way of the future, on an upward trajectory, but still experiencing growing pains and making a lot of people angry.
Oh no so then people will talk the good old days before Wayland which messed everything?

People that still complain about pulseaudio drives me nuts. Sound was the second worst thing about Linux, only wirelesss internet was worse.

I've looked at Sway, still on Fedora 24 but thinking of upgrading to 25 and giving Wayland a spin with Sway.

Last I checked Sway hasn't yet reached feature parity with i3 (though need to see if the missing bits are things are currently rely on in i3).

There's another project besides sway: fireplace - https://github.com/Drakulix/fireplace