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> As a developer, I needed to port a custom Linux system to hardware that only has Wayland drivers and it was a giant pain. Wayland offers no advantage at all f

> As a developer, I needed to port a custom Linux system to hardware that only has Wayland drivers and it was a giant pain. Wayland offers no advantage at all for that system but it broke a lot of functionality that relied on X in terms of window placement, etc. FWIW, I've had decent luck running cage ( https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/ https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/ ), then on that xwayland, and then just ignoring wayland and running X clients. The result does still have some slight quirks, but it mostly works fine.

ACS_Solver 3y ago
That looks pretty similar to what I ended up with! In the end, I had Weston running a rootful fullscreen Xwayland as the only Wayland window, and then X clients within that. There were still some complications, since I also wanted to make use of some GStreamer overlays that could totally sidestep window management, and the result wasn't perfect but it worked fine. Still, I can't help but be somewhat unhappy about how the forced use of Wayland resulted in a fair amount of work, the end result of which was running X clients anyway and trying to pretend Wayland isn't there.