alt Hacker NewsDoes Wayland work on non-Linux systems (e.g. *BSD)?
If an application is written for Wayland, is there a way to send its windows to (e.g.) my Mac, like I can with X11 to XQuartz?
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mghackerlady • today at 2:38 PM
Wayland works pretty well on FreeBSD and I know at least wlroots compositors work a bit on OpenBSD (though, I suspect anyone on OpenBSD would prefer to use their homegrown Xenocara). There are Wayland compositors for Mac, the youtuber Brodie Robertson did a good overview of them a few days ago
ux266478 • today at 3:55 PM
It depends on what you mean by send. Wayland doesn't have network transparency, there's a bit of a song and dance you have to do to get that working properly. I'm not sure the state of that or of Wayland compositors in general on Mac.
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torstenvl • today at 3:18 PM
Yes, but still kind of WIP.
Microsoft's WSL2 GUI integration works based on Wayland (and XWayland): https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
Rather than going fully protocol-based (like Waypipe), they used Weston to render to RDP. Using RDP's "remote apps" functionality, practically any platform can render the windows. I think it's a pretty clever solution, one perhaps even better than plain X11 forwarding (which breaks all kinds of things like GPU acceleration).
I don't know if anyone has messed with this enough to get it to work like plain old RemoteApps for macOS/BSD/Windows/Linux, but the technology itself is clearly ready for it.