Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland

Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir. Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making use of it...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miriway-How-To

[Quackdoc]

can someone TLDR what this actually does?

[JPFSanders]

can someone TLDR what this actually does?

If I am understanding this correctly it allows you to run non-wayland DE's on top of wayland.

IMHO something that should have been done by Wayland (weston) from day 0!!!!

[dekernel]

If I am understanding this correctly it allows you to run non-wayland DE's on top of wayland.
IMHO something that should have been done by Wayland (weston) from day 0!!!!

I was going to say a few more checks for the buzz-word-bingo game, but yours sounds better :-)

[oleid]

can someone TLDR what this actually does?

And how would be interesting as well.

It would be interesting how this is different from using libwlroots

[Quackdoc]

If I am understanding this correctly it allows you to run non-wayland DE's on top of wayland.

IMHO something that should have been done by Wayland (weston) from day 0!!!!

It's an interesting idea, I guess we shall see how it goes

[cj.wijtmans]

so its a xorg wayland compositor?

[spicfoo]

so its a xorg wayland compositor?

That is a meaningless question. A wayland compositor doesn't use Xorg. Mir is a Wayland compositor.

[cynic]

If I am understanding this correctly it allows you to run non-wayland DE's on top of wayland.

IMHO something that should have been done by Wayland (weston) from day 0!!!!

Wayland is a protocol, is not a piece of software and Weston have a completely different purpouse.

[cj.wijtmans]

That is a meaningless question. A wayland compositor doesn't use Xorg. Mir is a Wayland compositor.

a wayland compositor can totally use xorg.