Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by jcranmer on Sunday July 07, 2019 @01:35PM
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For as long as X is considered to be a reasonable alternative to Wayland, NVidia is unlikely to suffer as a result of its drivers being unable to support Wayland. If Wayland becomes the only practicable option for graphics in Linux, then NVidia is going to be forced to support it to keep their Linux market share.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by PlutoIsAPlanet on Sunday July 07, 2019 @01:48PM
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NVIDIAs drivers do support wayland, they just don't support a separate (not part of Wayland) protocol that the in-kernel mesa drivers support.
Whilst it's currently disabled by default, GNOME on Wayland with NVIDIA does run, just badly.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by atemerev on Sunday July 07, 2019 @01:48PM
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But that is the point of the post -- X maintainers will abandon X and it will not be considered "a reasonable alternative" anymore. Nvidia supports Wayland just fine with their Eglstreams API, but some WM/drivers developers make a principled stand of not using it.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by PlutoIsAPlanet on Sunday July 07, 2019 @01:59PM
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Maintaining a compositor isn't an easy challenge. GNOME has the resources, plus nvidia help, in supporting EGLStreams so it can.