udevbe/greenfield
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HTML5 Wayland compositor :seedling:
24 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 21 comments · first 2019-02-10 · latest 2025-09-09
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…I think there are so many interesting use cases that can be built on top of Wayland, like https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield and this
comment by tri2820 · 2025-09-09 · in Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal -
…constructs for apps that run purely in the browser+compositor. Incredibly cool work. Greenfield: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-02-28 · in WASM Wayland Web (WWW) -
…done [1]), you could do it with text or anything really, most people use some graphics stack. [1] https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by sweeter · 2025-01-26 · in Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion -
There's Greenfield, an HTML5 Wayland compositor. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield There's some fancy bridging modes to run apps in a browser, but the author has also been working on a way to make wasm Wayland apps run directly in the…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-01-31 · in New Renderers for GTK -
…remotely for a while, specifically on a wlroots compositor. Projects like this (maybe one day) and https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield are interesting since they essentially make access universally accessible.
comment by jpeeler · 2024-01-03 · in Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs -
…. Only sort of in the spirit but i quite adore Greenfield, an html5 Wayland desktop/compositor. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield I absolutely think there is all-in potential for the web. I think we're missing a visible rallying point,…
comment by rektide · 2023-06-29 · in The new desktop Outlook is a bad idea -
HTML5 Wayland compositor: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield From a comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36263861
comment by lioeters · 2023-06-09 · in Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment -
…browser. Awesome fricking project. Been around for a while & author @zubnix keeps slowly honing it. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239781 It so has a local wasm mode, so you can build Wayland…
comment by rektide · 2023-06-09 · in Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment -
…compositor being written for the web. Many caveats apply, different effort, but also interesting, https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239781
comment by rektide · 2023-05-24 · in Broadway – support for displaying GTK applications in a web browser -
…with webvm, cheerpx and greenfield https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machin... https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by fsiefken · 2022-09-28 · in D3wasm 0.4 – Doom 3 in WASM -
…a diversity of ideas for how we might get going. Projects like Greenfield, the HTML5 compositor ( https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield ) demonstrate the diversity we get from not having a single common core technology, are possible because…
comment by rektide · 2022-07-01 · in Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet -
…from the browser (disclaimer: I am the author, it’s also still very much under development) https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by zubnix · 2022-03-26 · in Running GUI apps within Docker containers -
…talking to files, which are only kind of semi needed, as a virtual filesystem is probably fine. [1] https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239781 (71 points, 3 months ago, 26 comments) [2]…
comment by rektide · 2022-03-15 · in Ask HN: Why can’t I run desktop Linux in my browser? -
…am building, except both native and web apps work seamlessly together: https://www.greenfield.app/ https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield https://twitter.com/FriedChicken/status/1420671685485867014?...
comment by zubnix · 2022-01-03 · in DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser -
…as what you’re talking about, but I recall seeing this a few months back and found it pretty cool: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by the_only_law · 2022-01-03 · in DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser -
…at embedded that I can't remember... Edit: also this one somebody wrote in HTML5 and typescript https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by md8z · 2021-11-03 · in How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014) -
…a way to do this: https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Clients/HTML5 There's a similar thing for Wayland too: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield And GTK has yet another way to do this built-in, that uses its own protocol:…
comment by cycloptic · 2020-08-18 · in Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) -
…https://github.com/any1/wayvnc Generic: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ Web-Based: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield You can also still use your X11 programs remotely within Wayland, by using XWayland, which is…
comment by cycloptic · 2020-03-05 · in The X-Windows Disaster (1994) -
https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield This is kind of a joke answer but the real answer is: This depends on the compositor you're using. So Wayland may not be network transparent, but it's possible to implement equivalent functionality on…
comment by sp332 · 2020-03-03 · in Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration -
…for some really crazy ideas like a Wayland compositor running in a browser for remote app access. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by sp332 · 2019-04-23 · in Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018) -
…might work pretty well. It's the sort of thing that could be standardized, with a bit of work. [0]: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
comment by microcolonel · 2019-02-10 · in Wayland misconceptions debunked