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Are there even any Wayland compositors in actual use that don't support that extension?
by m4rtink 6y ago
Are there even any Wayland compositors in actual use that don't support that extension?
- jcelerier 6y agoif you go to r/unixporn there are a ton of custom X11 WMs with very very small userbase - sometimes a dozen individuals. Screenshotting works with all of them.
- akvadrako 6y agoWMs are not compositors. Compositors are more like a WM combined with X.org.
- jcelerier 6y agoyes, that's the issue - writing a different desktop metaphor like the various tiling WMs was something that took as few as a couple hundred lines of C. Now with Wayland the person who wants to write his own desktop environment has to rewrite much more to get to something that doesn't even provide half of what Xorg gives. Also, compositors are not mandatory anyways on X (I don't use one personnally and prefer it like that) so it's a weird remark to make.