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Re: Future of X, fvwm and wayland



On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:12:05PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Makes you wonder how long it [X.org] will be around; I guess a fair while
> > though.
> 
> I can't see why it'd need to be around for very long, given that it can
> be replaced by Wayland + Xwayland.  So Xorg is only useful to the extent
> that it supports hardware that Wayland doesn't.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that you *can't*
use an X window manager with Wayland.  You're stuck using one of the
window managers or desktop environments that has been ported to Wayland.

If that's not true, then that changes a *lot*.


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