Wayback is a new Wayland compositor that implements the X11 window manager API on top of a single rootful XWayland session: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-Wayland . XMonad should run fine inside it.
This gives you the advantage of Wayland's modern display stack and no legacy Xorg code while still running a classic X11 window manager.
The main downside is you have to run all X11-compatible apps, it's unable to manage any Wayland-native applications. But, X11 apps aren't going away any time soon, just the display server.
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Why not run a virtual x session and run Xmonad inside it?
Wouldn't be lightweight or ..say.. easily GPU accelerated, but should work with some plumbing effort.
Wayback is a new Wayland compositor that implements the X11 window manager API on top of a single rootful XWayland session: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-Wayland . XMonad should run fine inside it.
This gives you the advantage of Wayland's modern display stack and no legacy Xorg code while still running a classic X11 window manager.
The main downside is you have to run all X11-compatible apps, it's unable to manage any Wayland-native applications. But, X11 apps aren't going away any time soon, just the display server.
This is not accurate. It runs quite a lot of legacy Xorg code actually, just without the input and video drivers.
The Wayback stuff is super cool. How has it not hit the front page?
I see the previous submissions, but there's just crickets in the comments.