Someone built a full Wayland compositor inside Minecraft, and it actually works
Someone built a full Wayland compositor inside Minecraft, and it actually works
Publish Date: 2026-05-22 00:44:00
Source Domain: www.xda-developers.com
Summary
- Run a Wayland compositor inside Minecraft with the Waylandcraft mod — because why not?
- You can run apps as in-world windows, with the creator demoing it with videos, Osu, and a Linux terminal.
- It’s Linux-only, and your windows are only visible to you and nobody else, but it’s still a cool project.
Wayland has been the center of a few big Linux stories this year. We’ve seen some distros adopt it, we’ve seen some drop X11 in favor of it, and we’ve seen people creating alternatives to X11 to stave off Wayland. But nobody asks, “What about adding Wayland to Minecraft?” mainly because, why would they? Minecraft is a game, not an operating system.
However, it turns out it wasn’t as silly a question as we first thought. A modder has actually added a Warland compositor in Minecraft, and you can give their mod a download if you’re in the mood to run the Linux terminal within the famous block-based game.
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