microsoft / wslg

Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
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support wayland server with waypipe in windows #1204

Open soloturn opened 4 months ago

soloturn commented 4 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem:

currently windows is the worst platform to get lremote linux GUI applications displayed. especially when using cloud based windows the user experience is slow, interrupted by stalls, and, quite instable. if one is used to wayland only remote the user experience is really painful. the source of trouble is how windows supports wayland, as it does NOT support it, or only via its quite complex windows subsystem for linux. your architecture slide shows it:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wslg-architecture/

Describe the solution you'd like:

weston or alternative wayland server with waypipe should be available on windows, and windows should adopt wayland as native protocol to display windows, so no translating from client to weston then to rdp and then to network is necessary any more. to support x-windows is not necessary any more, as basically all applications nowadays support wayland, and IF one really wants to use X, there is established solutions. there is a section in the wayland faq as well: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8 talking about old and new protocols for this purpose.

Describe alternatives you've considered:

Additional context:

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