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by slondr 1135 days ago
There’s more than just KDE and Gnome out there, you know.

There’s dozens of WMs that have no Wayland equivalent, and at this point seems like they never will. I use Xmonad at work. I doubt we’ll ever see a Wayland port of StumpWM.
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Nullabillity 1135 days ago
And before anyone suggests Sway, its multihead support is so laughably bad compared to Xmonad that it makes you wonder if anyone ever tried to use it.
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bee_rider 1135 days ago
That’s interesting, i3 wm has perfectly decent multihead support, and usually Sway matches it at least.
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ollien 1135 days ago
XFCE doesn't even fully support Wayland...
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BaculumMeumEst 1135 days ago
regarding stumpwm: https://github.com/stumpwm/mahogany

also another cool project: https://sr.ht/~shunter/wayflan/

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slondr 1135 days ago
It seems like they’re in the process of rewriting it into C? That seems like it would defeat what I found to be the most compelling aspect of Stump, but I’ll likely try it out to see for myself.
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femiagbabiaka 1135 days ago
Rewriting the backend into C. Writing C in 2023 is a weird choice for sure, but the clisp frontend code seems like it's going to be staying.
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