Xwayland support?

[wesbluemarine]

Is there any xwayland support?

[YaLTeR]

There isn't, and unfortunately due to X11 being completely cursed, built-in Xwayland support is not planned at the moment.

You can, however, use X11 apps on niri using Valve's gamescope (game-oriented), or by running Xwayland in rootful mode:

1. Run Xwayland (just the binary on its own without flags). This will spawn a large black monitor-sized window, you can fullscreen it for convenience. In the next Xwayland version, it will be properly resizable, too.
2. Run some X11 window manager in there, e.g. env DISPLAY=:0 i3. This way you can manage X11 windows inside the Xwayland instance.
3. Run an X11 application there, e.g. env DISPLAY=:0 flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam.

[KiaraGrouwstra]

i actually managed to successfully use wine through xwayland-run like xwayland-run -- wine game.exe - perhaps that tool might be worth mentioning over at the wiki article as well. 😅

[YaLTeR]

Looks interesting, yeah.

[SalmanFarooqShiekh]

I can make a PR for a small write-up on xwayland-run in the wiki if you want. I think this should be at the top of the currently suggested solutions.

[YaLTeR]

Sure