On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:26:32 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marty,
> 
> I have to admit it might be counterintuitive/surprising to have an X11 session
> wrapper when running under wayland. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it is
> possible to select a different wrapper depending on the selected session and
> I'm not sure which we should call (Wayland support in Xfce is still
> experimental so I didn't really touch it at this point).
> 
> I think the discussion should happen/involve upstream though.
> 
 
Hi Alexis

One could use the XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable to distinguish between X11 and 
wayland, i.e. introduce  a generic wrapper that follows the Xsession route for 
X11 and diverts for wayland sessions to a different wrapper. 
N.b. There were some objections to use this variable as it was not standardized 
but rather a systemd specific, at least this was the case back in 2018 
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/1224[1]).

Regards,
Marty

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[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/1224

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