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		XorNot on July 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us Wayland knows the framebuffer of every application running in it. There's no reason the compositor can't export windows on a window by window basis.

aidenn0 on July 11, 2014 [–]

This is actually how Xpra (mentioned earlier) works. It creates a dummy x server and installs itself as a compositing window manager.

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