From: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Cc: Michael Raskin <7c6f434c@mail.ru>, discuss@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: New user getting started questions
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:58:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG4opy-azkop5-xorAPWG8oTN0DLxjzRY4o-BxAYEekbnbH0wQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG4opy_JztAH3tD+ZUqpf9Un9mcLauYeuQaTrEA1sF7CY0z9fA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 07:21, Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> For the short-term, it would be fairly easy to make a slight change to
> the wayland-virtwl-proxy so that a version of it could run on the
> host. Unlike the guest one, which has to copy frames and deal with
> virtwl, this would just pass FDs through. And instead of connecting to
> /dev/wl0, it would just connect to the host compositor socket. It
> would then block access to screenshots (since it doesn't proxy that),
> and would add the VM's name to each window's title.
>
> Eventually I'd like to turn it into a full compositor, but I'm going
> to be busy for the next 6 months at least.
The 6 months passed and I had a bit more free time to work on this,
and now the proxy runs on the host too!
I didn't have time to write a compositor though, because I ended up
spending my whole holiday getting Xwayland support added (see
https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/10/30/xwayland/ if you want the
details - it's surprisingly complicated!).
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-30 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-05 19:27 Thomas Leonard
2021-01-05 20:09 ` Michael Raskin
2021-01-06 7:04 ` Alyssa's break Alyssa Ross
2021-01-06 9:11 ` Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
2021-01-06 7:00 ` New user getting started questions Alyssa Ross
2021-01-06 15:56 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-07 11:38 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-07 15:33 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-14 12:29 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-01-14 12:51 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-01-20 13:04 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-01-27 17:31 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-07 12:52 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-09 16:59 ` Qubes-lite With KVM and Wayland Alyssa Ross
2021-03-10 14:19 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-10 22:34 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-03-09 16:25 ` New user getting started questions Alyssa Ross
2021-03-13 7:21 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-03-13 13:52 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-10-30 12:58 ` Thomas Leonard [this message]
2021-11-03 11:36 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-03 18:27 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-10 12:58 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-10 12:00 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-11 11:09 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-11-11 16:12 ` Thomas Leonard
2021-11-12 10:47 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-13 15:08 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-15 14:06 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-15 20:23 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-16 16:18 ` Using virtio-gpu instead of virtwl Thomas Leonard
2022-03-16 16:54 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-21 12:10 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-21 16:05 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-22 11:08 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-03-22 11:16 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-03-22 20:05 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-06 12:19 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-13 17:12 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-14 13:57 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-04-19 12:58 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-04-19 12:01 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-05-15 15:20 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-05-16 11:55 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-05-18 9:55 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-06-05 16:29 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-08-09 12:00 ` Alyssa Ross
2022-10-10 15:16 ` Thomas Leonard
2022-10-10 16:53 ` Alyssa Ross
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