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Obviously they are talking about a server case. No one would do it for the desktop where XWayland is still a major dependency.
One thing where it can be useful
Obviously they are talking about a server case. No one would do it for the desktop where XWayland is still a major dependency.
One thing where it can be useful on the server though is clipboard forwarding. What is the alternative in the end to end Wayland use case?
I believe XWayland is not X.org, although I could be wrong about that.
Debian shows me this:
apt depends xwayland
xwayland
Depends: xserver-common
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xserver-common is part of Xorg.
But it mostly pulls some extra dependencies like x11-common and xkb-data and etc. So may be it can be split out.
Xwayland is Xorg with a Wayland DDX.
XWayland is a backwards-compatibility embedded x server for wayland. It’s always been planned with that in mind, it will not be deprecated the same way windows 11 can run windows 98 binaries.