[mdlug] Who Uses Wayland?

[Carl T. Miller]

Wayland?  No thanks.  I have a nifty little script that
can restore all my windows to my desired locations,
and it doesn't work in wayland.  In fact, they refer to
the ability to resize/relocate windows as a security
threat.  Until I can script the location  of windows, I
won't be using wayland.

c


On 7/17/23 09:01 AM, LAP wrote:
> The Wayland GUI is usually touted as being the newfangled,
> up-and-coming superior replacement for Xorg.
>
> But I, and a lot of others, are not so enthused.
>
> Here are some major problems with Wayland:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/233
>
> https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
>
> The gist of it all seems to be in this statement:
>
> "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]"
>
> I consider the desktop paradigm to be a silly idea:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>