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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 11:12:37 JST Rich Felker

   • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   @ariadne @whitequark There's no Wayland compositor that runs as an X client? Not even an SDL one?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 11:14:08 JST Rich Felker

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @ariadne @whitequark Like... that seems like the very first thing Wayland project should have written if they were doing things in a reasonable progression. To make it possible to run Wayland clients anywhere not just on Linux with supported graphics devices.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 23:29:54 JST Rich Felker

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:
     • Alistair Buxton

     @ali1234 @neal @ariadne @whitequark I assume the issue isn't actually nvidia but the broken nonfree drivers some folks still insist on using when perfectly good ones have been available for over a decade..?

     But this still seems weird. I'd think they'd properly support independent gpu using components since everyone wants to use the gpu for compute...

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     Alistair Buxton (ali1234@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 23:29:55 JST Alistair Buxton

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

     @neal @dalias @ariadne @whitequark

     There is no wayland compositor that can run in an X11 window on nvidia. In particular, none of the ones mentioned can do it.

     The closest you can get is to run headless (if the compositor implemented it), run wayvnc (if the compositor implemented it), and then connect to it from an x11 vnc client. Some of them also require you to run them on llvmpipe/software rendering for this to work.

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     Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (neal@social.gompa.me)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 23:29:56 JST Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @dalias @ariadne @whitequark I know that Weston, KWin, and Miriway all support running as an X11 window. I think Sway does too, as wlroots has code for doing this, though the compositor built on the wlroots library needs it plumbed up.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 00:01:02 JST Rich Felker

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:
     • Alistair Buxton

     @ali1234 @neal @ariadne @whitequark Independent components using the gpu concurrently.

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     Alistair Buxton (ali1234@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 00:01:03 JST Alistair Buxton

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

     @dalias @neal @ariadne @whitequark

     They all work fine on a VT, even if Xorg is running on another one at the same time, so it doesn't seem to be a driver problem.

     I don't know what "independent GPU" means. Independent of what?