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Now Ubuntu is Also Ditching Xorg Completely for Wayland! (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 24 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

It doesn't?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

My experience has been less that stellar, but it's always improving.

I've accepted it's inevitable, but at the moment nobody's forcing me to switch and I have zero motivation to. I haven't had any issues with X in years.

Thankfully, I'm not in Ubuntu, so I don't have anyone shoving their decisions down my throat (software-wise).

[–] echindod@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

When's the last time you used Wayland? I tried a few years back and there were quite a few paper cuts.

I've been using sway for about six months and there is one obnoxious paper cut, and one thing that just doesn't work.

The paper cut for me is a java app that won't render menus correctly. Most menus work, but there are a few that don't draw properly.

The one thing that still doesn't work is deskflow.

Screen sharing with zoom and Google meet and jitsi work fine. Keyboard input changes work fine, and most things are just hunky dory.

[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago

I bought an AMD gpu to use sway, I feel like the fuckers owe me 50 usd now which is what I payed for the gpu.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8000

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8001

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8002

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191

And it's devs are not willing to fix the most basic issues like correctly handing a fucking environment variable lmao

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7380#issuecomment-2453356422

Not to mention I have a different issue that I haven't even bothered to report because I already know won't be implemented:

I have 3 displays that right now I use xrandr to merge the 3 displays into one, this is not possible in any wayland compositor today, the closest thing I found was someone suggesting to use gamescope to make a window with the resolution of the 3 displays but that's a hack and doesn't work for me because I need the displays to be merged, not just span a single window across them.

There is also no universal xdotool or similar in wayland to query info about windows, so you have to learn to use the CLI tool provided by each DE/WM and then handle the data, which in the case of sway it is json formatted.

So what used to be a simple xdotool <args> | grep became needlessly overcomplicated and different for each wayland DE/WM.

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