Re: Wayland vs X
Hi Kevin,
On 2022-03-08 23:01 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote:
> I tried Wayland some years ago now (might have been when they first
> trialled it in Ubuntu) but decided not to stick with it.
>
> Since more desktop environments are beginning to choose Wayland as the
> default display protocol, I was wondering if others think there's
> significant user benefits to making the change?
I had it running for a while recently with KDE Plasma, because I wanted
to try out waydroid, which only supports Wayland. My impression was,
that it has improved a lot and is in a somewhat usable state, but I
quickly changed back to X.
I felt that programs designed for X and programs designed for Wayland
don't interact well (copy/paste and so on) and Plasma support for
Wayland is not as mature as for X. The worst experience was the
proprietary Citrix client, which I need to use on a daily basis for my
work. They say they don't support Wayland at all. Well it did somehow
work but it was absolutely not satisfying (again copy/paste, alt+tab
behaviour and so on).
I came to the conclusion that I don't really need or want Wayland at
this point of time. It might be technically better, but X does all I
need these days. And I like the X forwarding feature of SSH.
My biggest concern is that we will see over the next years a big
division of the GUI application eco system. Some programs will stay
optimised for X, some will even require Wayland, like the mentioned
waydroid. Hopefully a full transparency can somehow be achieved.
Regards,
Christian
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http://www.cb-fraggle.de
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