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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:48:09
Message-Id: 1499971679.3784.3.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wayland - too early to try? by R0b0t1
1 Ühel kenal päeval, T, 11.07.2017 kell 18:16, kirjutas R0b0t1:
2 > In any case if you are asking the question that OP did, I would
3 > suggest Wayland might not be for you. You may not receive any benefit
4 > from using it unless, for some reason, the differing underlying
5 > implementation fixes a bug - but I see this as being a bit of a
6 > stretch, because if you don't go out of your way to run Wayland only
7 > programs, you will still be running X11 on top of Wayland.
8
9 There are no grabs in Wayland, and thus the bug he had, related to
10 tooltips or context menus, might very well be related to the switch, as
11 tooltips and context menus are done completely differently.
12
13 > Most programs written for Wayland still seem to be at early
14 > experimental stages, and are things like tiling window managers.
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16 Most programs don't need to be written for Wayland, they just use a
17 toolkit while avoiding to make their own libX11/XCB/etc calls.
18 This means most GTK3 programs and Qt programs run natively on wayland
19 out of the box without doing anything.
20 Running things needing X11, and thus going through Xwayland, can still
21 be smoother as well.
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24 Mart