Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre Date: 15 Aug 2025 02:56:51 GMT Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <106olee$1r0v9$1@dont-email.me> <106v28o$3889m$1@dont-email.me> <20250806092812.00002de9@gmail.com> <6897438e$0$16825$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20250811112646.00004f89@gmail.com> <107dq7i$2sqrk$8@dont-email.me> <20250811154916.000065db@gmail.com> <107du9i$2ua57$3@dont-email.me> <20250812083707.000063c2@gmail.com> <107gio0$3j56j$8@dont-email.me> <20250813090537.0000025d@gmail.com> <107ip8v$2t49h$1@news1.tnib.de> <107kjcc$d4vh$31@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net WPUz/B6FKlWLEoSzKXq7YguMb1AVoi/1owR7aw67aBIQ5r18IV Cancel-Lock: sha1:4XDcy/c5tYJCFEba4agvqguWjPU= sha256:XElGlSRnKR0+boBEy1b3nHL0OOLLtIZ9QiiqCvBkcGc= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.163 (Hmm5; c7b9a5c2; Linux-6.16.0) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71126 On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:04:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote in <107kjcc$d4vh$31@dont-email.me>: > On 13/08/2025 20:32, Marc Haber wrote: >> Richard Kettlewell 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 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. -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G OS: Linux 6.16.0 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18 NVIDIA: 580.65.06 Mem: 258G "Dynamic linking error: Your mistake is now everywhere."