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XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience
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XWayland normally runs x11 apps seamlessly (more or less) in Wayland
XWayland rootful spawns a window which is like a virtual monitor running a full x11 session inside it. You spawn apps inside of the window using the DISPLAY variable
This seems... ridiculous. Windows and MacOS developers don't worry about creating decorations. And they don't worry about that "adding a lot of complexity". Even with X11 you get decorations from the WM without any work. I know I don't understand the glory that is the Wayland architecture and that a bunch of folks will now angrily tell me all the numerous ways in which I'm not only wrong but but also stupid but.. It just seems weird is all.
Honestly I feel like it doesn't really matter either way, it adds a little complexity for the people maintaining qt and gtk and things like that, but most actual application developers aren't interacting directly with the display server so it doesn't make much difference for them
It's probably the biggest deal for games running in xwayland
Care to elaborate? What have games to do with window decorations?
Native games need to add client side decorations to be usable on Wayland Gnome. Currently most games just run in XWayland.
Exactly, native games are dead anyway? :P