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Is there any way to get this working on Windows or is that a stupid question? |
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it is a stupid question. No. |
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emotional damage |
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Hyprland is Wayland compositor for unix-like systems, Wayland being the protocol that applications (clients) use to display stuff. However, windows already has its own compositor (and you can easily modify anything in windows) which wouldn't make Hyprland a viable thing to run on windows. Also as I previously mentioned Hyprland is for unix-like systems, which operate fundamentally differently than windows, which would require a very difficult port for something totally impractical. And lastly applications built for windows wouldn't work with this Hyprland port as windows applications use an API that is completely different than the Wayland protocol. I could be wrong on some things, but I hope this explains why there is no way to run it on my windows. |
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Also the Wayland protocol is incompatible with windows due to windows's UDS implementation not supporting ancillary data (required for wayland), probably due to handling file descriptors in a completely different way. |
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lol . |
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Impossible is a strong word. Windows comes with WSL (which is basically a well integrated VM running linux), and WSL comes with X11. I can run gimp on windows! It's great. But, right now, afaik, it's still not possible right now to run hyprland on windows because the whole X11 thing is (somehow) completely novel to MS and they've not made it quite as flexible as it needs to be (yet). However, with some changes by MS, it may become possible to run hyprland on windows. |
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That's not the case. Wsl2 includes wslg, a Wayland server with xWayland support, which renders linux apps as windows apps, however this has nothing to do with X11. The real reason Hyprland doesn't work on wsl, is because wsl does not provide DRM drivers. |
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Also the reason DRM drivers are required, is because Hyprland requires hardware accelerated rendering, and requires DRM for that. Sway doesn't so you can run it however even if you do manage to get it working it is not the same. You'll only get it running in windowed mode, and you'll be using wsl for everything anyways, so what's the point of just not installing linux, it's kind of useless. |
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For those that have use a company/corporate system with an approved OS, WSL is the closest means to getting a real Linux distro. (Even if Mac is offered, WSL is a lot times better to use.) |
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That doesnt change the fact that hyprland still wont run. |
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Well it's obviously not "running on windows", but I got sway running in WSL2. |
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how?? |
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Hyprland is Wayland compositor for unix-like systems, Wayland being the protocol that applications (clients) use to display stuff. However, windows already has its own compositor (and you can easily modify anything in windows) which wouldn't make Hyprland a viable thing to run on windows. Also as I previously mentioned Hyprland is for unix-like systems, which operate fundamentally differently than windows, which would require a very difficult port for something totally impractical. And lastly applications built for windows wouldn't work with this Hyprland port as windows applications use an API that is completely different than the Wayland protocol. I could be wrong on some things, but I …