Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland - too early to try?

[Mick]

On Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 09:02:59 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Rasmus Thomsen
>
> <Rasmus.thomsen@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > I use GNOME with Wayland for some time and I actually didn't notice that I
> > switched until I tried to get synergy working ( mouse sharing software,
> > which only works on X ), seems like GDM automatically chose Wayland since
> > some upgrade. XWayland works pretty seamlessly as well, so I'll just stay
> > with Wayland for now, but it might be more annoying to use it with other
> > DEs/WMs.
> > However, I have less screen tearing with fullscreen applications with
> > Wayland than I had with X ( with radeon + mesa ).
>
> My sense is that this is probably what people would see.  It will
> probably work fine for any of the major DEs, but you'll find these
> little cases of tools that aren't ported.  One BIG area that will be
> affected is X11 forwarding.  I'm not sure if that works over ssh or
> not with wayland, but wayland in general doesn't support network
> sockets.

Thank you both.  I don't forward this desktop, although I connect with RDP to 
various Vbox desktops, I take it these won't be affected.

I'll give it a spin and see how it goes.
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Regards,
Mick