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Supreeeme / xwayland-satellite

Xwayland outside your Wayland
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Comparison with wayland-proxy-virtwl #5

Closed DemiMarie closed 2 months ago

DemiMarie commented 2 months ago

How does this compare with Thomas Leonard’s wayland-proxy-virtwl?

Supreeeme commented 2 months ago

I was not aware of that project before, but from a quick glance/trial run, besides being written in OCaml instead of Rust, wayland-proxy-virtwl seems a lot more featureful and focused on VMs than xwayland-satellite. xwayland-satellite doesn't do any sort of proxying of the compositor or provide support for stuff like virtio-gpu - it connects to the host compositor the same way any standard Wayland application would. wayland-proxy-virtwl's X11 support is also likely more mature. xwayland-satellite does support hardware acceleration through wl_drm/linux-dmabuf though, which wayland-proxy-virtwl does not appear to support.