[Gambas-user] wayland and screen

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 31/01/2023 à 14:50, Gianluigi a écrit :
> Hi Benoit,
> 
> what do you say about Wayland, what is your opinion?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gianluigi
> 

It's like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly movie.

The ugly being that we can't move or activate windows anymore, which is 
a very useful window as soon as your application has more than one window.

Apparently Wayland developers are aware of that uglyness even if they 
won't admit it, otherwise XWayland (the X11 compatibility layer) would 
not exist.

In other words: if you really need the X11 features, just target X11. If 
your program run on Wayland, it will be run through XWayland, and 
everything should work as expected.

At the moment, there is a problem with Gambas that can't explicitly 
target X11 if it detects that Wayland is running. This needs to be 
fixed, as I don't think now that Wayland will fix its uglyness.

You can prevent a Gambas program to detect Wayland by clearing from its 
environemnt the WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable, and just let the DISPLAY variable.

To be honest, there are some good too in Wayland. They fixed a lot of 
things that were impossible with the X11 design.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.