Wayland seems ready to me but the main problem that many programs are not configured / compiled to support it. Why is that? I know it’s not easy as “Wayland support? Yes” (but in many cases adding a flag is enough but maybe it’s not a perfect support). What am I missing? Even Blender says if it fails to use Wayland it will use X11.

When Wayland is detected, it is the preferred system, otherwise X11 will be used

Also XWayland has many limitations as X11 does.

  • nyan
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    4 months ago

    Also out of the loop, but my guess is that Wayland hasn’t defined a specific API for the purpose yet, and their security model doesn’t allow programs to see the content of other programs’ windows. X11 doesn’t attempt to keep programs from seeing what other programs put on screen, so no specific API is needed there.