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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by kaba0 on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:06AM (#32897199)
No, there is Gnome’s, KDE’s, Weston’s (the reference), and Sway (wlroots)’s implementation.

This latter is pretty much a library to build your own de with minimal code up on top.

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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by Izkata on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:30AM (#32897447)
If that's the case, that there's no common code they're all built on, then why does anyone talk about "Wayland" anything?

All these conversations end up kinda pointless because of a sort of "it works on my machine[desktop environment]".

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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by LtWorf on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:23AM (#32897964)
Well the conclusion is that it's never a wayland bug because wayland never defines X feature that users are missing.
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Re:An X11 apologist tries Wayland by customkitchen on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:17PM (#32900346)
That is a correct conclusion, in the same way that many issues with X features are not actually issues with the X server. Over the years a lot of things have been moved out of the X server into client libraries, or into Mesa, or into D-Bus, or into Wayland...
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