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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:46:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vu4m47$1htqd$2@dont-email.me>:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:23:17 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-04-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Linux, “different GUIs” is not the same as “different operating
>>> systems”. Linux offers more variety of GUIs than all the rest of the
>>> computing world put together.
>> 
>> Wont the obsolence of X11 put and end to that?
> 
> Of course not.
> 
>> Many Desktop Environments and Window Managers won't work at all on
>> Wayland, from what I understand.
> 
> They will be updated, don’t worry. Wayland is just a low-level engine
> for managing drawing on the screen from multiple client applications,
> nothing more. It doesn’t dictate any kind of GUI style or toolkit or
> whatever. X11 was sort of the same, but Wayland is even more minimalist.

With Wayland, the display server is in the window manager, and the whole
thing is known as the "compositor".

Fortunately, there's some common code that can be used for the display
server part of the window manager:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots

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