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0 pointsmajewsky2y ago0 comments

The API compatibility is not being thrown away. Xwayland will be with us for a long time for backwards compatibility (that includes stuff that lots of users care about, e.g. most Steam games). X11 will continue to be around, reduced to a more manageable size as a compatibility layer, within Wayland.

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sprash2y ago

Xwayland only provides backwards compatibility for a very small subset of the X11 ecosystem (E.g. window managers or xdotool are not supported). As such it is only useful for very limited X11 clients on the level of GNOME applications and in most cases completely useless.

E1Q6Y57O2y ago

That's the same limitation as XQuartz or any other rootless X server. And you have this exactly backwards. The majority of X clients that users care about are ordinary programs, not window managers or xdotool.

sprash2y ago

> The majority of X clients that users care about are ordinary programs

This is simply not true. The only "odinary" programs according to your definition that I am running are a browser and a terminal. All other xclients I'm running go beyond that and can not work with Xwayland or XQuartz. (a quick ´grep "^[x,X]" .bash_history´ reveals xautolock, xbacklight, xbel, xcalib, xcape, xdpyinfo, xdotool, xkill, xmodmap, xrandr, xrdb, xsel, xset)

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sprash2y ago

> The majority of X clients that users care about are ordinary programs

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