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GNUser:

--- Quote from: Juanito on October 22, 2023, 11:27:46 AM ---weston has been updpated in the x86_64 and aarch64 repos.

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Thank you, Juanito. Do you know how to configure weston so that it shows a window list (known as "iconbar" in fluxbox--screenshot here) on its panel? I find it difficult to use a stacking window manager without a window list/iconbar.

Juanito:
I don’t know of an icon bar that works in weston - you can use super+tab to switch between windows.

GNUser:

--- Quote from: Juanito on October 22, 2023, 02:20:13 PM ---I don’t know of an icon bar that works in weston

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I feared as much. Thanks for confirming.


--- Quote from: Juanito on October 22, 2023, 02:20:13 PM ---you can use super+tab to switch between windows.

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For testing purposes that will do just fine. Thanks again :)

GNUser:
I submitted labwc for the x86_64 repo.

labwc does not come with an icon bar but, since it is wlroots-based, it could eventually be used with waybar. Getting waybar into the repo would not be trivial because some of its dependencies need to be added to the repo first.

GNUser:

--- Quote from: Juanito on October 20, 2023, 04:14:10 AM ---Of course the idea is not to use xwayland, which is a little painfull as it means the tinycore helper gui applets don't work.

Note that all gtk3 apps will work without xwayland as it has a wayland backend - qt-5.x apps will probably work too.

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I've been running  labwc  in pure wayland environment. I recently discovered, to my surprise, that gtk2 apps and tc helper gui applets (e.g., mnttool, apps) work just fine. It turns out that  labwc  wraps applications in Xwayland as needed--automatically and without any special configuration.

When I run labwc, Xwayland is not normally running in the background (i.e., pgrep -fa Xwayland returns no hits). But after running and closing a gtk2 or fltk app, I find that Xwayland is running:

--- Code: ---$ pgrep -fa Xwayland
7642 Xwayland :0 -rootless -core -terminate -listenfd 27 -listenfd 28 -displayfd 61 -wm 58
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I find labwc's no-hassle, Xwayland-only-when-needed approach to make a lot of sense. Discovering this made my day :)

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