[HN Gopher] Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for ...
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       Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland,
       inspired by openbox
        
       Author : NeutralForest
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2025-01-04 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (labwc.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (labwc.github.io)
        
       | fishgoesblub wrote:
       | > it cannot be controlled with dbus, sway/i3-IPC or other
       | technology. The reason for this is that we believe that custom
       | IPCs and protocols create a fragmentation that hinders general
       | Wayland adoption.
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       | If anything, this leads to more fragmentation since now you have
       | to hack your own way to control it, rather than using something
       | standard (at least on Linux) like dbus.
        
       | bean-weevil wrote:
       | The configuration being written in xml makes me feel like I am
       | not the target audience for this program.
        
         | onli wrote:
         | Well, that's openbox for you. Openbox though used the XML quite
         | nicely to enable GUI configuration (never looked into the code,
         | I assume they did not implement it just with regexps...), so
         | there is that advantage at least.
        
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