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Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by LorenDB on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:59AM (#40155903)
X also has awful touchscreen support. When you use a touchscreen, you are just dragging the cursor around with your finger. In Wayland, touch support is what you'd normally expect (e.g. dragging scrolls pages instead of selecting text).
Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by Vilian on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:23AM (#40156082)
exactly, you can go back and forth in firefox using your touchpad and i thing that very practical
Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by alwyn on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:04AM (#40157024)
This is configurable[1]. I am writing this from a laptop with a touchscreen using X. I can use the touch screen fine and _browse_ Firefox with it and don't select text.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Tweaks#Enable_touch...

Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by jeroenhd on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:43PM (#40162758)
X has decent touchscreen support, but it sucks at dealing with multitouch gestures, especially on touchpads rather than touch screens.
Re:Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclu... by itvision on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:01PM (#40163605)
That's configurable in X and I've never had this issue.