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There's 2 ways to get a window to show up on a Linux desktop, the old way is called X11 and the new way called Wayland. These protocols handle putting stuff on
by rstat1 3y ago
There's 2 ways to get a window to show up on a Linux desktop, the old way is called X11 and the new way called Wayland. These protocols handle putting stuff on the screen as well as input from your mouse and keyboard (and touch screen if you're one of the 2 people that have one).
Mozilla has been working toward making Firefox work with wayland for a while, seems they've finally gotten in to a shipable state.
- kiwijamo 3y agoTo be fair it's probably been fine for years -- what they've proposed is how it's been done in many distros already. They're more or less upstreaming the changes many distros have already done when they switched to Wayland by default over the last couple of years.
- rstat1 3y agoYou're not wrong. I've been using the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND envvar for a while and not noticed any difference. When I said "shipable state" I was thinking "shipped, enabled by default". Probably should've just said that instead.