[mdlug] mdlug Digest, Vol 201, Issue 4

[Brazilboz]

I have a pinebook pro that came installed with plasma and Wayland
It works very nicely



On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:00 <mdlug-request at mdlug.org> wrote:

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>    1. Who Uses Wayland? (LAP)
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> From: LAP <mail1 at lapiet.info>
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> Subject: [mdlug] Who Uses Wayland?
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> The Wayland GUI is usually touted as being the newfangled,
> up-and-coming superior replacement for Xorg.
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> But I, and a lot of others, are not so enthused.
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> Here are some major problems with Wayland:
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> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/233
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> https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
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> The gist of it all seems to be in this statement:
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> "As it currently stands minor WMs and DEs do not even intend
> to support Wayland given the sheer complexity of writing all
> the code required to support the above features [in the first
> link]"
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> I consider the desktop paradigm to be a silly idea:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
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> Consequently I use only a window manager, namely FVWM3, for a GUI.
> FVWM3 is in active development and has no plans to adapt to Wayland
> (for the above mentioned reason).
>
> What are the thoughts of others on this?
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> I would hope that Xorg and Wayland will be two stable options
> within the GNU/Linux environment, but as we have seen elsewhere,
> the trend is for less choice and more hegemony.
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> LAP <mail1 at lapiet.info>
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