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Does "everything else" work with wayland? Like is the compositor the only thing I need to get most applications running without too much hassle? Disclaimer: I
by mario0b1 8y ago
Does "everything else" work with wayland? Like is the compositor the only thing I need to get most applications running without too much hassle?
Disclaimer: I haven't read up anything on wayland and don't know too much about how X or it's mechanics work
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoYep, most applications should Just Werk.
- lapinot 8y agosway comes with xwayland configured, which makes it zero-effort to run X-only software (eg software that doesn't use a wayland-enabled gui library like gtk3, qt5, sdl2...). The only pain will be if you have a hidpi screen, since xwayland will scale a non-hipdi rendered X window instead of passing down the scaling factor to X (which apparently is tricky). I'm in that case and what caused me the most hassle was firefox, but there is an experimental wayland branch (for which fedora provides prebuilt binaries) which i'm running smoothly.
- deevus 8y agoStill don't see Sway 1.0 in Fedora repo though :(
- erik_seaberg 8y agoEvery app still needs to support X, because Wayland doesn't have remoting. I'd love to be wrong about this.