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@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

@leo (the horrors)

@leo windows aero 👍

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

this is bashonubuntuonwindowsoncrack

• firefox and vscode are rendered by gnome
• the start menu and gadgets are rendered by dwm, and then composited by gnome
• ghostty, which literally goes above and beyond the gadgets (which you cannot do by just streaming one compositor to the other), is rendered by gnome
• and the cherry on top is gnome-control-center, which exclusively runs in gnome sessions, being managed by gnome, rendered by dwm, and composited by gnome again

this is powered by about 7 layers of duct tape and a couple hundred lines of the worst C the world has ever seen

it is going fucking insane

damn fedi really liked gnome being composited by win7 aero dwm. thats cute but it thinks gnome should also be allowed to do some compositing

anyways heres win7 aero dwm being composited by gnome

oh no. horrible horrible idea

@valpackett @xerz tbf yes they use dirty hacks to make it work but at the end of the day they ship a system that shows wayland clients on windows 11 :p

@liv hawk tuah

perfectly sane and normal desktop environment

fixed a bunch of issues that made this extremely laggy and, uh, this just kinda works now

the entire "making a tiling window manager out of a desktop environment" is already cursed on linux, it gets really cursed when it goes paperwm -> gnome -> windows 7 dwm

this is surprisingly usable though

also, to prove that yes, gnome really manages these windows: here's paperwm, the scrolling wm gnome extension, running on windows 7 (albeit really slow because starting paperwm completely jams the x11 tunnel for some reason lmao)

@xerz fun fact! windows 10+ does wayland

windows 7 does not which made this especially fun

tl;dr of how this clusterfuck works: this is effectively just x11 forwarding an x server from windows to linux. the fun part is a) making gnome run with an already existing window manager (namely dwm.exe lol), b) making gnome run over x11 forwarding (it is Not a fan, last time it tried running gnome on windows this is what broke it and made it quit trying), and c) actually ripping out parts of the gnome compositor again to make dwm instead of gnome render window decorations to achieve ✨aero gnome✨

@leo it does involve x11 forwarding (since it is rendered on windows 7) but those windows are launched and managed by gnome. even paperwm works!

@julia not replaced. that also runs 👍

(before anyone asks: these windows are actually managed by gnome and rendered by dwm.exe)

it saw another windows aero theme for kde. that's cute but it thinks gnome also deserves some love too

anyways here's a gnome desktop composited by the real aero dwm.exe from win7