PSA: OWL, a wayland-compositor for Mac

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Nov 23, 2024, at 9:35 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This is mostly a public service announcement for those grappling with e.g. GTk4's new requirements and/or XQuartz in general.
> 
> https://github.com/owl-compositor/owl/issues/12
> (esp. https://github.com/owl-compositor/owl/issues/12#issuecomment-2495488842)
> 
> This native Wayland-on-Cocoa compositor has been around for a while but hasn't gotten very far largely because of a lack of manpower from what I understand.
> 
> Could be worth looking into, no?
> 
> R.


I was building this a few years ago when it was very new. Jeremy suggested it as the next step for gtk support now that Linux has moved beyond X to Wayland.

However it was still mostly non-functional when I tried, and I think the primary developer was called into the army to do service so that was that.

Looks like he’s back, but not working on this?

K