question: custom rendering to arbitrary wayland surface about dioxus HOT 4 CLOSED

I'm going to close this issue since i ended up going with an alternative solution.

Considering how far downstream the issue ultimately is, as its specific to gtk, i don't think its likely this will change for potentially years even so there seems little value in hoping for an eventual implementation via exposing some method with wry.

It would theoretically be possible via an integration with wgpu using blitz but blitz seems like it would need a ton of enhancements to fully support what I'm hoping to achieve as well.
Thanks for the support :)

lockscreen is complete if anyone's interested!
https://github.com/imgurbot12/dynlock

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I'm not familiar with wayland lock screens, but wry does expose methods to render a webview inside other windows which may be helpful. Dioxus could probably expose an API that allows you to do something similar

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Thanks for the response. I did actually try using wry directly, unfortunately wry does not yet have support for spawning from an existing window as a child for wayland as of yet.

Wry uses tao, which uses gtk as the backend for their windows on wayland and according to their documentation and examples it doesn't seem possible. quoted from those docs:
If you want to support X11 and Wayland at the same time, we recommend using WebViewExtUnix::new_gtk or WebViewBuilderExtUnix::new_gtk with gtk::Fixed.
their examples integrating with other renderers seems to confirm this as well
https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/blob/dev/examples/wgpu.rs#L205
https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/blob/dev/examples/winit.rs#L25

i assume gtk doesn't have the support for using a foreign surface anymore in gtk4 since it appears the exact sort of call i needed has been removed since the transition from gtk3: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2132

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I've unfortunately given up on the idea for the moment and have opted to use iced instead since I can integrate it directly with wgpu which thankfully can use a foreign surface.
https://github.com/Smithay/client-toolkit/blob/master/examples/wgpu.rs#L64

though this means I have to implement my own rendering backend for iced since im not using it through winit which comes with a lot of the extras needed for doing it easily.

I'd be happy to come back to it if there was some other way which is why I've reached out and asked as an issue lol.

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