On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 5:23 AM Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> wrote: > > I'm upgrading to a new laptop (thinkpad P73). > > It has a 100Wh battery, but it's also battery hungry, so one of my goals > is to limit battery usage when using the intel driver only (I'll turn > off the nvidia chip). > That said, I'll still be running the usual X apps, from gthumb, to > google-chrome, to arduino, to xmms, gvim, and so forth. > > Is it worth my looking into using Wayland and the lasted E I can find > packaged for debian (sorry, still not interested in the build your own > from TOT rabbithole :) ), or am I going to be better off sticking with X > for now? > > Thanks, > Marc
I build E from source, with X and Wayland support, and run on a bunch of devices, including Intel CPU / Intel GPU and AMD CPU / AMD GPU. For regular use, I'd say stick with X. Here are some gotchas for me with running under Wayland: - no external display support - only your laptop's LCD will work - https://phab.enlightenment.org/T4501 - usability issues with gtk apps - https://phab.enlightenment.org/T8295 - I develop some gtk apps that are affected by this, so it's a non-starter for me just with this bug - usability issues flipping apps to/from fullscreen mode - https://phab.enlightenment.org/T7663 - high cpu usage ( E uses 100% of 1 core ) when running firefox ( I haven't raised a bug for this yet, but I assume it's a known issue ) - slightly more unstable than E on X - restarts kill X apps ( when combined with the above, this is painful ) - known issue, apparently no wayland protocol needed to support graceful restarts - mouse/touchpad usability - no config for sensitivity, mapping mouse buttons, scrollbutton, etc Having said that, E itself runs much smoother on all my systems running in Wayland mode. Memory usage is lower ( not that I care too much, but if you have limited memory I guess you would ). I give it a go every couple of weeks to see how usable it is ... but all of those above points for me combined make it less appealing that running on X at this point. YMMV. Regarding the 'rabbithole' comment ... it's really not that hard to build from git sources. Dan _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
