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Wayland vs. X – Overview (wayland.freedesktop.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

i have no horse in the race, but what are people pushing as the 'cons' to wayland?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Basically there are a bunch of restrictions baked into Wayland that are there for security reasons. For example, the protocol doesn't have a way to record keystrokes. Which is reasonable since apps really shouldn't be able to do that whenever they want. But some apps really need that, and they had no way to. Recent extensions fixed most of these issues but it has been a long road.

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