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0 pointscycloptic5y ago0 comments

There is some rough support for that in the X server, but it is lacking a good API or user interface, and the desktops that would implement that are doing it in Wayland.

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jude-5y ago· 2 in thread

Doesn't that strike you as odd? Like, why is it that X11 was so close to fixing the problem, but everyone who would benefit from it (and who touts Wayland's ability to do it) decides to just throw it all away and re-built everything from the ground up? I'd sure like to know what they know about this.

cyclopticOP5y ago

No, the hard part is building a good API and user interface that works for everybody. IMO that's mostly why there are a lot of half-finished and inconsistent things like that X11.

jude-5y ago

Doesn't that undermine Wayland's selling point of isolating clients' input? No one was clamoring for this until Wayland announced it, and no one was willing to put in the effort to fix it in X11 all these years (even though it would have been easier than ripping out X11 entirely).

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