Re: [PATCH 0/7] MR4947: winewayland.drv: part 12: Display mode change emulation

[Ryan Brue (＠ryanabx)]

On Mon Nov 18 17:16:27 2024 +0000, Steven Newbury wrote:
> After reading through the discussion, it occurs to me that a wine driver
> could be written to connect directly to the Xwayland socket and act like
> Xorg and reuse all the Xwayland infrastructure. There was a reason the
> Xorg approach was used, and Wine faces many of the same complications
> which led down that path. It would also simplify rootless and rootful operation.

This would introduce a hard dependency on xwayland of which is not guaranteed on wayland desktops. It's very common, but not ubiquitous