Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre

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Subject	Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre
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On 2025-08-15, vallor wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:04:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
> <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote in <107kjcc$d4vh$31@dont-email.me>:
>
>> On 13/08/2025 20:32, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> In Wayland, the answer is: the application communicates intent to the
>>>> display service and the display service decides on how to meet that
>>>> intent.
>>>>
>>>> The application’s requirements are, normally, not that windows must be
>>>> positioned at specific locations, but rather than windows must be
>>>> positioned in a specific layout with respect to one another and
>>>> (perhaps) with respect to elements of the physical display.
>>>>
>>>> Simple examples of this would be context menus and dialog boxes. The
>>>> application doesn’t care where they go as long as it’s somewhere
>>>> sensible. If the user wants to include their positioning beyond “they
>>>> go somewhere sensible”, they will want to make one global change, not
>>>> reconfigure every application.
>>> 
>>> Are we there yet? When my desktop switched from X11 to Wayland, I
>>> hardly noticed.
>>> 
>> My guess is that it will depend largely on what you are running on it.
>> 
>> I believe I am still running X.
>
> $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
> x11

That comes up empty here, and I'm running X11. When / under which
conditions is that set?

Or is this meant to be set on a system to customize/choose whether to
run e.g. Wayland or X11 with some tools?

> Running XFCE here -- it's just now starting to have Wayland support,
> thanks to another library that should allow quite a few traditional
> window managers to gain Wayland chops.
>
> I'm in no hurry, I already get 4K @ 120fps in Elite Dangerous...wondering
> how obs-studio will act in Wayland, glad that X11 is still an option.

-- 
Nuno Silva

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