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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by vetinari on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:48AM (#24384419)
> How are you going to sandbox graphical apps without knowing about (and having capabilities around) the system by which a containerized app would communicate with your OS’s graphics subsystem?

Wayland is the way forward.

> you’ll need the X11 wire-protocol libraries (“xorg-common” in most package repos) for the sandbox to link in.

Today, runtimes do contain client x11 libs. However, nothing in flatpak requires it and it is possible to phase them out in the future releases of runtimes.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by bsder on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:32PM (#24386646)
> Wayland is the way forward.

Wayland has been "The Way Forward(tm)" for 10 years now.

That may be. But nobody in RedHat/Canonical/etc. believes that enough to put sufficient manpower on it to make it true.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by vetinari on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:01PM (#24386811)
> But nobody in RedHat/Canonical/etc. believes that enough to put sufficient manpower on it to make it true.

It is default display server in RHEL8. If that is not believing enough in it, I don't want to even know what would be sufficient to prove otherwise.

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