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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 00:45:48 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   do you actually use wayland or just talk about it?
   honest question

   • willghatch@mastodon.social's status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 01:05:04 CEST willghatch

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     @ekaitz_zarraga If this is an invitation for general audience response, I use Wayland on the computer connected to my TV for the "no screen tearing" feature. I am interested in the "no keylogging" feature for more general use, but I rely on some X11 features still that aren't in Wayland and don't currently want to try to figure out a good window manager replacement that works on Wayland. I do like to talk about display servers sometimes, though, as this writing attests.

   • mntmn (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 01:52:38 CEST mntmn

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     @ekaitz_zarraga using wayland in the form of sway and now wayfire exclusively for years and haven't looked back

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 11:49:16 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • willghatch

     @willghatch That's a good reason for sure. I have a lot of tearing in my laptop :(
     But I'm worried about wayland not having support for some programs and I don't want to fight against it (I already fight a lot against #Guix even if I love it)

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 11:49:47 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • mntmn

     @mntmn any issue running games, 3d programs or anything like that? Screen recording?

   • willghatch@mastodon.social's status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 17:08:19 CEST willghatch

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     @ekaitz_zarraga I think "normal" programs work fine. The programs that don't work for me are things I use for things like dynamically changing the keyboard layout (in a window-manager agnostic way) or sending synthetic keypresses of arbitrary unicode symbols. Things that explicitly interact with the display server that Wayland lacks in a standardized fashion. (To date, at least, as far as I know.)

   • Adrián Pérez (aperezdc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 20:17:58 CEST Adrián Pérez

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     • mntmn

     @ekaitz_zarraga @mntmn I've been for a long time switching between Wayland and X11 sessions to dogfood WebKitGTK on both. Mostñy GNOME Shell, but also wlroots based compositors in the last few years. Running a Wayland compositor has become boring, which is good: things work, there aren't surprises, and sone things do work better to the point that I even have no Xwayland support in some compositors I run sometimes.

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 20:20:01 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • mntmn
     • Adrián Pérez

     @aperezdc @mntmn what about blender and screencasting software. Those are the only things that make me worry.

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 20:20:18 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • mntmn
     • Adrián Pérez

     @aperezdc @mntmn and also the wacom tablet support

   • Adrián Pérez (aperezdc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 21:34:26 CEST Adrián Pérez

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     • mntmn

     @ekaitz_zarraga @mntmn OBS worked fine for me the ever since it got Pipewire support, and the same goes for webcam capture (also in browsers). An old Wacom tablet I have works fine under GNOME, but I haven't tried it with other compositors. Actually I have been building GIMP from the development branch with the GTK3 support because it works much, much better than through Xwayland.

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 21:35:07 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • Adrián Pérez

     @aperezdc hmmmmmmmmmmm