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1) dwm is an X window manager.

2) X apps work on Wayland, Quartz, etc. because there are X servers foe those environments, Xwayland is currently the only maintained X server; it too will eventually go away (especially when the toolkit maintainers drop X support altogether).

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I don't think anyone expects Xwayland or XQuartz to go away anytime soon. The only way that would happen is if someone pulled a Haiku and reimplemented xlib and other APIs on top of a Wayland-enabled toolkit.

> Xwayland is currently the only maintained X server;

Just googling to check that claim. As a random example: xorg-server in Arch was last updated on 12/19/22. Six days ago.

Wayland proponents are so aggressive like this. You want to deny that anyone is still interested in X. Maybe it won't have dramatic changes. But people will be patching it for years.

Xwayland is built out of the same tree as the main Xorg server. Same for XQuartz. But the infrastructure for the X server running as the graphics host is rotting and not getting much love.

Because not everyone can afford and/or use latest and greatest hardware, Xserver and X software in general will never go away. Even when Wayland is mainstream. There will always be a need for older software. This is my prediction for the future. Just wait and see ^_^

DWM (all caps) is also the name of the Windows display server post-XP.

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