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embedding custom wayland UI stuff on top of gtk3 and gtk4 based applications works! 🎉
the gtk APIs to get down to the wayland surface are a bit awkward, but at least its accessible.
I tried the same with Qt6 and couldn't find a way to have it return the underlying wl_surface pointer. 🤷
I got an LV2 plugin UI with this setup working, but no hosts to try it out against.
Modifying jalv.gtk3 is likely the easiest path... 🤔
WIP test code dump at
https://github.com/falkTX/wayland-audio-plugin-test 
Published at
2025-07-04 21:45:00 UTCEvent JSON
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