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so uhh

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wayland as the library is made in C: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/

Wayland

Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or full...

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so if you manage to rewrite weston, the reference wayland compositor, to Lua - you'll pretty much have what you want

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why

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its almost dead

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how even

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whatever

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do the same but for openbox then https://github.com/danakj/openbox

GitHub

GitHub - danakj/openbox: Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)

Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM). Contribute to danakj/openbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

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well, then make everything from scratch

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technically x server is a networked thing, so you will need at least some knowledge of how to socket

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there is a sample server somewhere on that page https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R1/

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i thought you said you like suffering

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if you want to make an x server from scratch in lua, x.org is the place to look at. i mean its literally the official website of x server stuff

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i mean the thing you are trying to make is already 36 years old

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