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Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs by sirffuzzylogik on Saturday September 26, 2020 @03:43AM (#24597108)
Wayland support is actually being actively worked on. It is done via "native" (no X widgets) GTK support. You can find it on: https://github.com/masm11/emacs

The plan is to get that merged upstream at some point, you can find out more about it on the official mailing lists.

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Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs by zachlatta on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:45AM (#24598391)
The GTK fork is great, but it’s so slow - especially on HiDPI displays.

I tried it out on my 4K monitor and I felt a noticeable increase in typing latency. It started to feel a lot more like VS Code.

Ultimately I was about to get HiDPI support working in Xwayland in Sway with a series of patches and I ran Lucid Emacs, which was much faster and made the latency increase go away entirely.

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Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs by miduil on Saturday September 26, 2020 @06:38AM (#24597760)
Oh thank you for the link, I've had to discard emacs when I've switched to sway/wayland and I can't wait finally having emacs available for my muscle memory. Magit changed my life
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