Wayland has a bright future ahead: The move from Xorg to Wayland had a rough start, but things have improved, and there is an exciting roadmap for the future.
Wayland has a bright future ahead: The move from Xorg to Wayland had a rough start, but things have improved, and there is an exciting roadmap for the future.
My excitement is muted by two things:
- Every X11 application runs in the same Xserver, so there's no isolation which would be a massive incentive for adoption.
- Attempting to run anything Wayland inside a Docker container across the network is doomed to fail. RDP, VNC and the rest of these are a massive loss in functionality compared with X11 across the network.
I want this to work, but so far it just doesn't.
In case you're wondering, try running a GUI application on a remote server side by side with one running on another server on the same display and copy/paste data between the two.
Wake me up when Waymonad is released.
XMonad for life.
for life? I'm begging for an explanation on how you're sworn to xmonad for life? I'm terrified it's related to nix os really
If that breaks your brain, I've got one for you: herbstluftwm for life.
I want no configuration file. The WM should run a program that configures and sets up everything. Not even as much a config as i3, or Sway. Nothing about the compositor should be configured or set unless it's through a CLI client call.
There are dozens of compositors, pretty ones like Hyprland and novel ones like Niri, but always with the bespoke configuration files in whatever random config file format the maintainer has a thing for.
River looks similar to herbstluftwm in the configuration area. I did try it a few months ago; I don't remember why it didn't work out - lacking multi-monitor support, maybe? But since it's in active development I'll have to try it again.
After using Linux almost exclusively for over 20 years and at some point used nearly all of the desktops and window managers that exist for X; and having come to the conclusion that - in general - configuration files for long-running services are bad design, and that nearly all services should be runtime-configurable with tooling, I just won't use a compositor with a static configuration. Hot reloading is a work-around hack. I3's live restart is a pretty decent solution, and i3-mesg is close, but the gaps eventually become obvious.
That screenshot of glxgears is giving me flashbacks of editing and re-editing my XF86Config trying to get my video card to give me some modicum of performance.
Java really needs to support it. The font rendering through the xwayland compatibily layer is horrible.
Has anyone tried Wayland with a 2080 ti? I want to make the switch but I know Nvidia doesn't always play nice.
I have a 2080 running kde Wayland on Arch. No issues really, but I only use that machine occasionally
Awesome, thank you!
The 2/3/4/5-000 series cards use a driver that's more open than the older cards, so nvidia support tends to be better than it was before.
I'll move to Wayland when something like Easystroke works, until then Xorg FTW!
I hope that roadmap includes drag and drop functionality
its already there
At least in the archive manager it never works for me. Also in Firefox it feels very unreliable