{"id":252039,"date":"2026-05-22T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:00:18","slug":"someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone built a full Wayland compositor inside Minecraft, and it actually works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/\">Someone built a full Wayland compositor inside Minecraft, and it actually works<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 00:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Run a Wayland compositor inside Minecraft with the Waylandcraft mod \u2014 because why not?\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        You can run apps as in-world windows, with the creator demoing it with videos, Osu, and a Linux terminal.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        It&#8217;s Linux-only, and your windows are only visible to you and nobody else, but it&#8217;s still a cool project.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wayland has been the center of a few big Linux stories this year. We&#8217;ve seen some distros adopt it, we&#8217;ve seen some drop X11 in favor of it, and we&#8217;ve seen people creating alternatives to X11 to stave off Wayland. But nobody asks, &#8220;What about adding Wayland to Minecraft?&#8221; mainly because, why would they? Minecraft is a game, not an operating system.<\/p>\n<p>However, it turns out it wasn&#8217;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&#8217;re in the mood to run the Linux terminal within the famous block-based game.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t4 reasons why Hyprland is the best windows manager for Linux<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone built a full Wayland compositor inside Minecraft, and it actually works https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-built-a-full-wayland-compositor-inside-minecraft-and-it-actually-works\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wayland-minecraft-featured.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-252039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252041,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252039\/revisions\/252041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}