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Can I run applications transparently over the network yet?
I don’t know how I feel about Wayland. On the one hand it’s being made by x11 devs so I think they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11. On the other hand, moving away from x breaks so many things and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it. I understand apps are breaking because they relied on features of x that were securi…
Me neither. On the one hand I switched over 2 years ago and it worked fine for the most part, there a still a few things missing. One of the things were headless displays and it seems like there will be something like that in GNOME 40 - though probably experimental.
What bothers me most is that innovation is so difficult. Everything needs to be standardized first and then implemented in all different desktops like KDE and GNOME each in their own way. And this process is extremly slow. Back in the Xorg days many cool programs were made by independent users (for sceensharing, automation etc.). Writing a new Desktop or porting over one from X is almost impossible, were it not for wlroots. I wonder if we are not sacrificing too much in the name of security (OK an evil program can not keygrab and control other windows, but it can still read all my SSH keys etc.).
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Besides security concerns, mixed-DPI setups are such a major pain point with X11 that many people who use a laptop with additional screens would probably switch to Wayland just for that alone. That's a large demographic.
Do any desktop system handle mixed DPI well? I mainly use Linux so I don't know, but one of my work laptops have windows on it and it freaks out every time I connect it to a 4k monitor. At least in linux I can use triggers and xrandr [1] to manage it even if it's not pretty, never figured out how to do it automatically in windows. Edit: I am using KDE/Qt apps for 99% of my gui stuff. Gnome etc might be worse. [1] htt…
I don’t know how I feel about Wayland. On the one hand it’s being made by x11 devs so I think they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11. On the other hand, moving away from x breaks so many things and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it. I understand apps are breaking because they relied on features of x that were securi…
I'm no expert on either X11 or Wayland. But I can tell you that happy people are usually silent while unhappy people are noisy.
Can I run applications transparently over the network yet?
You can run applications over the network with (edit: waypipe, not pipewire, I mix up the names every time), which works quite well. Technically it's not "transparent", but it isn't on X either because pretty much 0 UIs today draw themselves using X11 primitives, they just draw their own buffer and get X to display it.
I was really looking forward to Wayland, when I moved to Linux. It was then said to be right around the corner. That was six years ago. If the current state of Wayland is as bare-bones as depicted in the article, it's just sad. And as there is no support for OBS on the horizon, it's a non-topic for me. And I never liked X11 to begin with...
OBS is working already with wlrobs. https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs
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ibus works with Gnome out-of-the-box. On sway/wlroots, you will have more luck with fcitx. I don't know which tool works best with KDE.
Why, in Wayland, support of some basic features has to do with what DE or TWM you use? It is not like this in X11 and it seems there is more adherence to the UNIX philosophy in X11.
I don’t know how I feel about Wayland. On the one hand it’s being made by x11 devs so I think they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11. On the other hand, moving away from x breaks so many things and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it. I understand apps are breaking because they relied on features of x that were securi…
Besides security concerns, mixed-DPI setups are such a major pain point with X11 that many people who use a laptop with additional screens would probably switch to Wayland just for that alone. That's a large demographic.
I don’t know how I feel about Wayland. On the one hand it’s being made by x11 devs so I think they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11. On the other hand, moving away from x breaks so many things and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it. I understand apps are breaking because they relied on features of x that were securi…
If Wayland doesn’t replace X11, then something else needs to show up, or we drop the idea of a Linux/BSD desktop. X11 is pretty much abandoned as this point. It’s only a few RedHat engineers who are doing minor patches and no one want to manage the future releases.
I don’t know how I feel about Wayland. On the one hand it’s being made by x11 devs so I think they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11. On the other hand, moving away from x breaks so many things and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it. I understand apps are breaking because they relied on features of x that were securi…
I am a happy Wayland user, and have been for a long time. There are many more out there. You don't often hear us because we don't spend every waking hour shitting on Xorg and praising Wayland for how good it is (maybe we should?) >I wonder if it will ever reach the adoption level of x11 It will, considering that Xorg is effectively no longer maintained and its developers have switched to working on Wayland protocols…