[openbox] Using Openbox with Wayland

[Ranjan Maitra]

Thanks again to both Dana and Ian! This will be quite a problem for me to leave Fedora since I have spent over 13 years on it, and have been a contributor also. But I will ask on Fedora's mailing list about what the options are, since I also do not want to get tied down by an unnecessary DE.

In the meantime, if you come across some ideas on how to make this work, please feel free to let me/us know. I would think that there are more people than me who use both Fedora an a DE-less WM.

Many thanks again, and best wishes,
Ranjan


On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 01:42:57 -0500 Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:

> In wayland there is still a WM but it's part of the compositor. Ian's right
> tho Openbox isn't a wayland compositor so it won't work for you there.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at primate.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 2016-12-17 23:21, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:16:34 -0800 Ian Zimmerman <itz at primate.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > Isn't window management the responsibility of the toolkit under
> > wayland?
> > > >
> > > > In other words, it makes WMs "obsolete" (quotes mine).
> > >
> > > Sorry, I don't know what this means, because I don't really know much
> > > about wayland. All I was wondering is if there will be performance
> > > hits if i don't do something for OB and other WMs to work well with
> > > it.
> >
> > It means you can't use openbox (or any other desktop-independent WM)
> > with wayland at all.  It's a completely different model.
> >
> > You may be able to configure fedora to avoid wayland for a while, but
> > given the close relationship between that distro and Gnome, it's
> > probably not going to last.  At some point you'll have to choose between
> > fedora and openbox.
> >
> > Don't blame the messenger :-(
> >
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