▲ 568 ▼ Unholy abomination (thelemmy.club) submitted 7 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Mwa 14 points 7 months ago* (1 child) how does this work, is this using WINE with ReactOS components and Windows 7 components or something similar? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children) tl;dr of how this clusterfuck works: this is effectively just x11 forwarding an x server from windows to linux. the fun part is a) making gnome run with an already existing window manager (namely dwm.exe lol), b) making gnome run over x11 forwarding (it is Not a fan, last time it tried running gnome on windows this is what broke it and made it quit trying), and c) actually ripping out parts of the gnome compositor again to make dwm instead of gnome render window decorations to achieve ✨️aero gnome✨️ https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/115912436861018228 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago I both love it and hate it so much. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Mwa 6 points 7 months ago Oh I get it now. Thanks! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children) tl;dr of how this clusterfuck works: this is effectively just x11 forwarding an x server from windows to linux. the fun part is a) making gnome run with an already existing window manager (namely dwm.exe lol), b) making gnome run over x11 forwarding (it is Not a fan, last time it tried running gnome on windows this is what broke it and made it quit trying), and c) actually ripping out parts of the gnome compositor again to make dwm instead of gnome render window decorations to achieve ✨️aero gnome✨️ https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/115912436861018228 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago I both love it and hate it so much. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Mwa 6 points 7 months ago Oh I get it now. Thanks! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago I both love it and hate it so much. permalink fedilink source parent
