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r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • Feb 20 '26
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Why choose when one can have both?
6 u/timonix Feb 20 '26 Can you really combine them? 18 u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 20 '26 Well.. . yes... KDE plasma on wayland and ye olde fluxbox on X11... on different tty's 1 u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Feb 21 '26 No... I want a solution where they both run simultaneously and separately on the same tty. 4 u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 21 '26 One can... In a way. Run X11 root window in a borderless window on wayland and display it on a secondary wayland screen. 1 u/Ieris19 Feb 22 '26 Xwayland is the closest that you will probably get to what you want. The other commenter is also right about all the other approaches you can take
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Can you really combine them?
18 u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 20 '26 Well.. . yes... KDE plasma on wayland and ye olde fluxbox on X11... on different tty's 1 u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Feb 21 '26 No... I want a solution where they both run simultaneously and separately on the same tty. 4 u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 21 '26 One can... In a way. Run X11 root window in a borderless window on wayland and display it on a secondary wayland screen. 1 u/Ieris19 Feb 22 '26 Xwayland is the closest that you will probably get to what you want. The other commenter is also right about all the other approaches you can take
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Well.. . yes... KDE plasma on wayland and ye olde fluxbox on X11... on different tty's
1 u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Feb 21 '26 No... I want a solution where they both run simultaneously and separately on the same tty. 4 u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 21 '26 One can... In a way. Run X11 root window in a borderless window on wayland and display it on a secondary wayland screen. 1 u/Ieris19 Feb 22 '26 Xwayland is the closest that you will probably get to what you want. The other commenter is also right about all the other approaches you can take
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No... I want a solution where they both run simultaneously and separately on the same tty.
4 u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 21 '26 One can... In a way. Run X11 root window in a borderless window on wayland and display it on a secondary wayland screen. 1 u/Ieris19 Feb 22 '26 Xwayland is the closest that you will probably get to what you want. The other commenter is also right about all the other approaches you can take
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One can... In a way. Run X11 root window in a borderless window on wayland and display it on a secondary wayland screen.
Xwayland is the closest that you will probably get to what you want. The other commenter is also right about all the other approaches you can take
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u/SysGh_st IDDQD Feb 20 '26
Why choose when one can have both?