On 2017-07-11 09:02, Rich Freeman 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. What about "3rd party" window managers like openbox? From my limited understanding of wayland, that functionality just goes out of the window (OOPS, sorry); window management becomes a responsibility of the toolkit and there is no way to plug in a different one. Or does xwayland help with that? I'll be grateful for an explanation of this area, as I'm worried about the future of the X server but I'm also married to openbox. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
