On Tuesday 11 Jul 2017 07:51:19 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > 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.
Additional question: will keyboard selection keybindings for different languages be read off /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf? In particular, Option "XkbLayout" Option "XkbOptions" which help me toggle the keyboard between different languages. Or is a different mechanism required for (X)Wayland? -- Regards, Mick
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