Sure X isn’t a hot mess unlike wayland… sure…
As someone using Wayland I can confirm it’s indeed not a hot a mess
Can I use AwesomeWM, XMonad, or StumpWM on Wayland?
Can I run a GUI program over ssh?
Does it support the X selection and clipboard protocols?
(These are not rhetorical questions, I’m really asking.)
Can I use AwesomeWM, XMonad, or StumpWM on Wayland?
Can you run macos software on linux?
Can I run a GUI program over ssh?
This is more of a why would you… Although, waypipe
Does it support the X selection and clipboard protocols?
Too lazy to google, but overall clipboard works as expected, both C-c and text selection. I remember experiencing problems with clipboards in vim (like 2 yrs ago) which were fixed by switching to nvim
Wayland only keeps the clipboard until the application exits. This means a clipboard manager is basically a requirement. Iirc desktop environments might solve those issues by default, but on a standalone compositor just add a clipboard manager and enjoy the history.
No you cannot run any of those WMs, some of those do have ports with varying degrees of completeness but only sway(i3) and hyprland(hypr) are ready for prime time.
Yes, using waypipe
Yes, primary selection does work along with Ctrl+c although as others have mentioned it forgets when the app you copied from gets closed
Okay, but that would have made a shitty joke wouldn’t it?
Hmm… I don’t know maybe it’s fine as a joke.
OK cool. When will it support nVidia?
inb4 it’s nShitia who must support Wayland
Wayland compositors run entirely in userspace and do not interact directly with hardware drivers. If Wayland doesn’t work on nVidia but X does, it’s a Wayland problem.
Compositors do directly interact with the drivers though. The reason Wayland doesn’t work on Nvidia is because Wayland uses an API called GBM(generic buffer management) to draw directly to the Linux VT. The Nvidia drivers don’t implement that API, the API that both AMD and Intel drivers support. It very much IS an Nvidia problem and not the other way around. Nvidia tried to convince all the Wayland developers to use EGLStreams instead but no other drivers use(or even support) that API, everyone agreed on GBM except Nvidia. That’s not Wayland’s problem.
Amusing video covering this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGMdLAKQ0c
I actually quite like wayland
😂 But X is a very old spaghetti code from the 80s and is a security nightmare. I use X, btw!
Third options?
If you only use the CLI, you don’t need X or Wayland.
A while ago as an experiment I set up a new system and decided to see just how much I could get done without installing a graphical environment. Most of my work happens in Neovim and there are plenty of applications that will do things like play video directly to a framebuffer so it should be pretty straightforward right? Turns out not really. Neovim will run in a kernel VT, but it’ll be … messy. The kernel virtual terminal is only designed to be good enough to use to install a desktop manager or repair your configuration. It’s not meant to be used full time. It only supports 16 colors which breaks just about every color scheme out there. It also only supports specially converted pixel fonts, meaning your choices of font size are somewhat restricted, ligatures are a complete no go, you can pretty much forget about nerdfonts (unless you wanna do a lot of work) and the only way to change fonts or font sizes is to use the setfont command which only works if run directly in the terminal as opposed to inside e.g. tmux.
It’s usable in a pinch, but I do not recommend.
Did you do much browsing? Lynx is a thing, but it can’t do JavaScript.
Come to think of it, is there a CLI Lemmy client?
Nice! I knew it had to be a thing.
I’m confused, wayland.social is just another mastodon instance, yes? EDIT: Oh presumably it’s a joke
It’s a Linux joke. Basically, the X display server is an unmaintainable mess, so it is being phased out in favor of Wayland.
Easy, because Cinnamon is on X. When Cinnamon is on Wayland, so will I (and when I don’t have an Nvidia GPU, I guess).
