Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
So plain ‘emacs’ package doesn’t work on Wayland? That sounds
like a
recipe for a poor user experience, no?
The mainline Emacs is not Wayland-native, but it (along with just
about everything else) will run fine under XWayland. It's how I've
been running it for some time now. The user experience is almost
indistinguishable from either the ‘pgtk’ branch or the mainline,
X-only branch.
(FWIW folks like me who use exwm, ratpoison, or one of these
geeky
tiling window managers probably can’t switch.)
This is correct, but I don't see why this should prevent Guix
offering the option for Wayland-based compositors/window-managers
out of the box as all it does is offer more options for users.
I have no objection to defaulting to Wayland, but my gut feeling
is that
we have enough on our plate for 1.4 already, so I’d rather delay
that
post-release.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I don't believe that
setting the ‘wayland’ flag to #t in gdm-configuration causes
Wayland to be used for your desktop environment, it merely
*allows* it to be selected from the greeter. When logging in you
can select from Gnome under X, Gnome under Wayland, or other
window managers you may have installed under either
environment. Without that flag only the X11 window managers will
be selectable.
-bjc
