it saw another windows aero theme for kde.

[49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

faq:

• i want this: no you do not this is horribly hacky and looking at it the wrong way (or long enough) breaks it
• why: the consequences of giving it free will
• how: will probably write something about this soonTM but irl stuff is getting in the way and this is hella complicated lol
• will this break when gnome finally deprecates x11: yes, and that is a good thing holy fuck this is so cursed

[leo@60228.dev]

@49016@catgirl.cloud wait how does the blur work??

[leo@60228.dev]

@49016@catgirl.cloud i was like "oh that makes sense" until i noticed that

[49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@leo windows aero 👍

[49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@leo (the horrors)

[leo@60228.dev]

@49016@catgirl.cloud is this proxying DWM_BLURBEHIND to x11 window properties with a gnome extension that implements equivalent rendering

[49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@leo even worse. right direction but doing horrible crimes to render stuff in x11, then doing horrible x11 crimes to get the more or less composited output to dwm, then letting dwm render as usual, and then doing slightly saner crimes to get the rendered window shown as an x11 window which gnome then composites into the final thing, essentially doing a roundtrip

[gary@social.kernel.org]

@kloenk @49016 You might be interested to know that I actually got Wayland working too, using WSLg's codebase: https://github.com/nbdd0121/nix-collection/blob/trunk/pkgs/weston-rail/default.nix. (Also, the custom driver is for file system, not display, my original solution of using Windows 11 as DE is just X forwarding).

[gary@social.kernel.org]

@kloenk @49016 This is a screenshot I captured earlier. Unfortunately due to Weston's lack of server-side decoration and RDP local move support, the experience is actually not as good as X forwarding. You certain won't get any nice Aero effect which requires DWM to do the window decoration!

[rbos@mastodon.novylen.net]

@49016
This is cursed.

Straight to jail.