Re:Dwl: Dwm for Wayland
by macawfish on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:51AM
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It's probably a distro thing. I'm on a rolling release distro (arch) and I've been using wayland on arch and it's worked great. There are still some things I struggle with, but for ~7 years I've been using wayland without major issue. Things iron themselves out pretty quickly these days when you're using a rolling release distro. This is not so for popos/ubuntu/debian etc.
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Re:Dwl: Dwm for Wayland
by mystifyingpoi on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:13PM
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I don't want to be rude, but "it's worked great" and "still some things I struggle with" need some clarification.
The things I struggle with are very niche, like remote desktop via pipewire over ssh.
Day to day stuff is way better than x11. Remember how much fiddling used to be necessary to configure x11 for your specific devices? I've never once done that and I don't miss it at all.
By the way, pipewire is amazing.
Re:Dwl: Dwm for Wayland
by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:23PM
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> Remember how much fiddling used to be necessary to configure x11 for your specific devices?
Er. No, I don't remember that. Are you talking about needing to make a xorg.conf once upon a time? Because that hasn't been generally needed for... over a decade? Maybe two at this point?
Re:Dwl: Dwm for Wayland
by mystifyingpoi on Saturday July 26, 2025 @01:59AM
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Me neither, and I had my first Linux machine in 2008. That was true maybe in 1995. Of course anecdotal evidence.