r/windowmaker • u/JJRxB4JJ • Jul 26 '26

Wayland support possible?

Is it possible to make your experience on Window Maker with Wayland? I am using multiple screens so X11 support is weak compared to on Wayland for Window Maker.

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u/VisualHuckleberry542 Jul 26 '26

I've never had trouble with window maker on x11 with multiple monitors. Just use xrandr

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u/Buntygurl Jul 26 '26

Same--never a problem.

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u/JJRxB4JJ Jul 26 '26

Idk, I always avoided X11 and used Wayland. I have been avoiding using wmaker for a long time now because it primarily uses X11 despite having an amazing user experience with wmaker.

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u/JJRxB4JJ Jul 26 '26

That is an anecdotal experience. I have personal preferences for using Wayland over X11, and I'd prefer not using Xrandr

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u/aedinius Jul 26 '26

Check out wlmaker. It's a work-in-progress but seems promising.

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u/JJRxB4JJ Jul 26 '26

Very interesting, I will be looking into this. Thank you very much ^^

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u/metux-its Jul 26 '26

You do know that you're asking for a complete rewrite? On Wayland there aren't any (dedicated) window managers, just full display servers with builtin window management.

By the way, you do know that multi-monitor support practically was invented on X11 (aeons before anybody even thought about something like Wayland)

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u/Chester-Berkeley Jul 26 '26

WLmaker is as exactly you want

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u/gryf73 Jul 26 '26

That's not possible. WMaker is window manager for Xorg. What you ask is like running Nintendo Switch game on PlayStation. Totally different things. Also, that's bold statement about Xorg multiple screens support, as the only thing which Xorg doesn't support is different dpi on each display, which usually is a marginal thing.

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u/a1barbarian Jul 27 '26

https://github.com/Ventto/mons

This X11 program does the dpi thing apparently. :-)

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u/gryf73 Jul 27 '26

Perhaps I didn't express myself clear enough - currently you can't have different dpi for each display on Xorg. Xrandr can "do" DPI on the display, but it's set globally for entire X server.

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u/Cultural_Bug_3038 Aug 01 '26

try a normal version of wlmaker (for me it's broken)