You think you’ve seen it all and then there’s a Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft on Linux
You think you’ve seen it all and then there’s a Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft on Linux
Publish Date: 2026-05-18 05:33:00
Source Domain: www.gamingonlinux.com
I’m not sure why you would want to do this, but you can run a Linux Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft to get various external windows inside the game.
Open source developers never cease to amaze me with what they’re able to do. A developer going by “EVVIE” managed to combine the worlds of Linux and Minecraft, to enable you to pull up all sorts of Linux desktop windows directly inside Minecraft. Sure does look cool, a bit like running a desktop inside a VR headset like the draft code for the full VR mode for KDE Plasma written about here before on GamingOnLinux.
They even managed to play a game of Osu! (a popular free rhythm game) while showing off.
See the full video demonstration below:
Incredible stuff.
The code is available on GitHub under the GPL license. The developer notes it was not created with AI. It will only work on Linux systems, since it requires Wayland. You need Minecraft 26.1.2, the Fabric mod loader, xkbcommon library 1.11.0 and xkbcommon tools (xkbcli).
In case you also missed some recent Minecraft news, the Java version is finally getting a friends list integrated along with peer to peer multiplayer!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
