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sph
on July 31, 2022
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Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome a...
I can use DOS just fine, but nobody ain't maintaining it.
jrm4
on July 31, 2022
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Great. If X is like that that's an even better argument for "who cares about Wayland."
imtringued
on Aug 1, 2022
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I am currently dependent on Xvfb and xdolib and frankly I don't care. Adding options doesn't take them away
jrm4
on Aug 1, 2022
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Not when those options are designed to crowd out the old thing, which is what I believe the strategy from Red Hat et al is.
brnt
on Aug 1, 2022
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Freedos is maintained.
sph
on Aug 1, 2022
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By that metric, so is Xwayland.
(I knew someone would have mentioned the modern DOS emulation layers and missed the point.)
brnt
on Aug 1, 2022
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But XWayland does nothing in the situation of a Wayland compositor not working for a user. It's just for X11 application compat, while the problems discussed here seem not that.
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