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by zokier 1255 days ago
On the other hand, there is nothing in Wayland that prevents anyone from writing a compositor that splits off some window management tasks to a separate process. Afaik nobody has bothered to do so yet, but if there is demand then it could be done. Or maybe there isn't that much demand for such thing.
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The blog post mentions Wayfire, which has a plugin architecture, so not separate processes but an abstraction boundary at least - which is the more important thing.
River does that for the windows layout https://github.com/riverwm/river
Does not phoc / phosh work like that?