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Operate Hyprland as a Wayland compositor: match documentation to the installed version, isolate config changes, inspect outputs, and treat plugins as code.
Distinguish a window manager from a desktop environment and compositor, then map Openbox, Fluxbox, Budgie, Pantheon, and Enlightenment to the right layer.
Compare GTK4/gtk-rs, iced, egui/eframe, and Tauri for Linux desktop integration, system dependencies, security boundaries, packaging, and release testing.
Understand the X server, Wayland compositor, XWayland compatibility path, and portal-mediated desktop services before diagnosing Linux GUI behavior.
Separate Linux application configuration, data, state, cache, and runtime files using XDG conventions, with safe migration and session-level diagnostics.
Use PostThreadMessage only with a live queue and compatible message loop, and avoid lost notifications, modal-loop surprises, and synchronous-send deadlocks.