On my laptop, I prefer using GNOME under Wayland, because it has the most stable, fully-featured and “just works”Įxperience there is. Stops you from leaving window management as an API. On the screen and giving them inputs events from your keyboards, mice, touchscreens etc. Task of doing everything it wants with the clients, which is usually among the lines of showing them In fact, the correct terminology is “Wayland compositor”. Is just an X11 client with special privileges, on Wayland the window manager is also a server and a compositor. Unlike X11, where the server is X.Org and the window manager The server is what we are interested in now. Strictly between the clients (applications on your screen mainly) and the server. One of the main ideas of Wayland is that it’s merely a specialised IPC protocol, and the communication is I wrote this post to make you (re)consider that. Some may wonder “hmm maybe I can port it myself”. Wayland equivalent (XMonad, Awesome, Bspwm and the others, all having their unique feature-set). Some power users also haven’t switched to Wayland because their window manager doesn’t have a You can watch this talk / rant about X11 to get an idea about how bad it is. It sure does deliver, provided that you’re not using unsupported graphics cards. It promises better security, performance, portability, everything, compared to X11, and Wayland is the “new” (13 years old already) display server technology on Linux, which is supposed to replace Should You Write a Wayland Compositor? - tudor's blog tudor's blog
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