I have packaged Xwayland for Sailfish OS, in case anyone wants to run X11 apps.
Right now you would need a window manager which you probably have to run on a container. Later I’ll make a window manager that integrates well with Sailfish OS (like how in a desktop Xwayland windows appear like regular windows), but I’m publishing the Xwayland package in case someone might find it useful.
I have uploaded only the runtime dependencies to OpenRepos. You can find the RPM specs for all the necessary dependencies at the various repositories at ArturGaspar (Artur Gaspar) · GitHub.
Below you can see it running xeyes and xclock in twm in a Debian container through harbour-containers.
Idk what you’re exactly want to, but just FYI the limited shell of lipstick will stop you from integrating Xwayland like you’re used from Desktop Linux. There isn’t even xdg-shell available on SailfishOS.
I don’t think anything theoretically stops me from implementing the Xwayland integration (properly called “rootless mode”) in this compositor. It’s just a little bit of work because it has to act like an X11 window manager to the X clients. I had a previous attempt based on wlroots (which might have given me the Xwayland integration for free) but I couldn’t get the screen orientation to work right.
In fact I don’t think I need xdg_shell at all since I’m packaging an old enough Xwayland that it uses wl_shell (which is why it works in Lipstick though in rootful mode).
I didn’t say it doesn’t work, I meant heaving aggressive popups that lay on top and other edge cases, that e.g. in Wlroots’ Xwayland get handled by layer-shell, on GNOME by gnome-shell, iirc.
I guess most things will work with the compsitor in compositor approach. But some forum user will want to have it all, like always. @rinigus faced the shell problem with flatpak and porting qt 5.15, too, so if you run into problems, he maybe can help.
