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@osnews@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

You can apparently use Windows 7’s compositor in GNOME, and vice versa – or something

There's cursed computing, and then there's cursed computing. It turns out that you can render GNOME's windows with the compositor from Windows 7, dwm.exe. Yes.

tl;dr of how this clusterfuck works: this is effectively just x11 forwarding an x server from windows to

https://www.osnews.com/story/144214/you-can-apparently-use-windows-7s-compositor-in-gnome-and-vice-versa-or-something/

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You can apparently use Windows 7’s compositor in GNOME, and vice versa – or something

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