An X11 apologist tries Wayland

Post by pedrocr » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 10:25 AM UTC

atq2119 wrote: post #287

aidenn0 wrote: post #76

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I think GP was talking about how ssh has the -X and -Y flags for forwarding X, but you need to do something like -L XXXX:localhost:YYYY to ssh forward. TigerVNC (and some others) will do e.g. "-via foo@bar :1" which GP might not know, but is rather convenient. Xpra is still a better replacement for -X when launching a single application though.

Yes, that's what I meant, and thanks, those are interesting points. My main use case is launching one-off visualization tools on a remote system that I'm ssh'd to anyway. ssh -X is hard to beat in terms of convenience for that use case, and e.g. a persistence setup would be overkill.

    waypipe ssh @ 

Post by bloopernova » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

AltruisticGapHN wrote: post #311

I am one of those people that has been watching Valve's support of Proton and Steamdeck, and already familiar with Ubuntu for development... and now considering leaving Windows behind for good. So far my experience with both development and gaming is good, however I find that in order to control the NVIDIA GPU (a GTX 1080) - I need software like GWE to set the power limit, and fan curve... and for whatever reason the…

Post by IceWreck » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 10:37 AM UTC

xani_ wrote: post #112

gpm wrote: post #89

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> Wayland is not GNOME, what you describe is not Wayland problem, but GNOME problem. Which in turn is the biggest problem with wayland. We are fragmenting the ecosystem with every window manager dealing with shared problems in their own custom way, because wayland only takes responsibility for a tiny fraction of the common things that every window manager does.

Maybe we should put a layer on top of wayland with all of the common stuff that DE uses funneled into common APIs. Like, all the eXtras DM needs We could call it X-Wayland

Post by 0dayz » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 10:46 AM UTC

eptcyka wrote: post #306

emidoots wrote: post #7

I recently tried switching to Linux with a few different distro's (Ubuntu, Elementary OS, etc.) and use Wayland. The thing that sticks out like a sore thumb to me, and which I've been unable to solve, is that apparently it's not possible to configure trackpad scroll speed. At all. From what I was able to gather, Wayland/libinput say they shouldn't be responsible for handling it and instead window managers should[0][1…

But you can though - https://i.imgur.com/YFiG2kx.png

Post by scheeseman486 » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 10:59 AM UTC

itvision wrote: post #305

kjeetgill wrote: post #266

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Ah yes. Issues you don't have don't exist. Especially, with super consistent, trivial, uniform system components like graphics drivers, display servers, and compositors on linux. Famously stable, reliable, and uncomplicated.

NVIDIA: Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}" Intel, AMD and X.org modeset driver: Option "TearFree" "On" You can even enable it at runtime: $ xrandr --output $output --set TearFree on Nouveau: No bloody idea, nouveau is broken. Sorry to break it to you or you're either using NVIDIA binary drivers or buy a different GPU. The issue does not exist. P…