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arp242 on July 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dwl: Dwm for Wayland

It's not really a fork in any meaningful sense, because rewriting dwm (or any other X11 WM) to Wayland means re-doing almost all code. A "dmw with Wayland" would basically be "if (x11) { x11_code() } else { wayland_code() }".

woodrowbarlow on July 30, 2025 [–]

yeah, by "fork" i really just meant "separate repo". you're right.

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