[Gambas-user] wayland and screen

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 31/01/2023 à 15:11, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> 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,
> 

As for uglyness again: GTK+3 / GTK+4 beats Wayland in large margins. 
With GTK+ we are almost in an horror movie.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.