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microtonal 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The window chrome of our discontent

I don't think there is an answer. The best you can do is probably running Windows in a VM and limiting its use to applications that you really cannot replace. It's been a while since I used a VM on Linux, but VMware had a thing called Unity Mode where you can have application windows from the VM on your Linux desktop:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/desktop-hyper...

It seems like they removed it from VMware 17.6, but maybe another VMM still has this functionality?

nazgulsenpai 4 months ago | [–]

I haven't tried it but I've seen this project promoted in some tweets and maybe even here: https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

ThePinion 4 months ago | [–]

VirtualBox (with Guest Additions) has Seamless Mode if you're using X. I'm really not sure about the status of it using Wayland.

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