The way I see it, Wayland itself is better in some ways but not great. For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders -

The way I see it, Wayland itself is better in some ways but not great. For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders - hence, case-by-case handling of exceptions to the security model. Read: dirty hacks built in from the start. I think clipboard handling also falls under this category. Edit: to me, it seems like wayland isn't fundamentally better. It's just a "new and improved" version of the same system architecture paradigm X is built with. I'd be more interested in something that follows the 'everything is a file' paradigm that made Unix so great to begin with.