Comment by gf000

Comment by gf000 5 days ago

3 replies

> you put your display code, input-handling code, compositor code, session-handling code, and window-management code all in the same process

That's an implementation detail. You can absolutely separate one out from the other and do IPC - it just doesn't make much sense to do so for most of these.

The only one where I see it making sense is the window manager, which can simply be an extension/plugin either in a scripting language or in wasm or whatever.

account42 4 days ago

It's not an implementation detail that X11 specifies interfaces between those separate components and Wayland does not - X11 is designed for for the window manager being separate from the display server, Wayland is designed for them being the same.

  • gf000 4 days ago

    Wayland simply leaves it up to the implementor - ergo, an implementation detail.

    • account42 4 days ago

      Sure if you want to water down the meaning of words to uselessness then you do you.