* On 2022 10 Mar 17:04 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > didier gaumet wrote: > > >> OK, thanks, I won't switch then I think ... I like feh and > >> use it a lot. > > > > Just to be clear in case there would be a misunderstanding > > because my sentence was not accurate enough: what I meant is > > feh (for example) is not directly compatible with Wayland, but > > can be run in the X11 compatibility layer of Wayland > > (Xwayland, the nested X server that can be run inside > > Wayland) > > No, I understood, but that sounds like too much emulator ...
My understanding is that xwayland is an X server that runs under Wayland and the idea is that it handles X protocols but Wayland handles the video drivers and screen drawing. I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and a desktop that has two monitors. So far I have not had any issues with any Debian provided packages. They just work, including feh which I call from neomutt to display images. No fuss, no configuration, it just works. I've even built and locally installed GTK2 apps without issue. I did have a display issue with a proprietary third party program that was built with some older version of Qt, as I recall. That has been replaced by a version that is FOSS and it works fine. On the desktop with dual monitors I have xscreensaver running and it has the most issues with detecting events as when I do strictly keyboard work it will time out and start running a saver. Moving the mouse wakes it up. It also glitches at other times even when using the mouse, but this is not a show stopper for me. It also doesn't handle DPMS on Wayland either which I can live with (I'm sure the built in Gnome blanker works just fine). My GPUs are stock Intel on board graphics as I don't game nor do I need fancy 3D capability. This hardware is sufficient for displaying the GL screen savers and for whatever compositing requirements Gnome has. HTH - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature