Re: New user getting started questions

Thomas Leonard
2021-10-30T11:59:43Z

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 07:21, Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> For the short-term, it would be fairly easy to make a slight change to
> the wayland-virtwl-proxy so that a version of it could run on the
> host. Unlike the guest one, which has to copy frames and deal with
> virtwl, this would just pass FDs through. And instead of connecting to
> /dev/wl0, it would just connect to the host compositor socket. It
> would then block access to screenshots (since it doesn't proxy that),
> and would add the VM's name to each window's title.
>
> Eventually I'd like to turn it into a full compositor, but I'm going
> to be busy for the next 6 months at least.

The 6 months passed and I had a bit more free time to work on this,
and now the proxy runs on the host too!

I didn't have time to write a compositor though, because I ended up
spending my whole holiday getting Xwayland support added (see
https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/10/30/xwayland/ if you want the
details - it's surprisingly complicated!).

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