Hacker News with Generative AI: Wayland

Wayland isn't going to save the Linux desktop (dudemanguy.github.io)
As you all know, the Linux desktop is dominated by Xorg. The X11 protocol originated in the 80s which later ended up being adopted by Linux desktop systems. It survived all the way to this day as Xorg, and I'm using it right now to make this post. While it is remarkable that X11 has survived so long, it's certainly not flawless. There's some questionable parts of the core protocol and old legacy baggage that is still carried to this day.

Linux, X11, Operating Systems, Wayland

9 points by fanf2 17 days ago | 11 comments

Wayland Color Management and HDR Protocol Support Merged (phoronix.com)
After five years in the making and over 800 review comments, Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol is merged to the upstream Wayland Protocols repository.

Wayland, Color Management, HDR, Open Source, Protocol

10 points by marcodiego 72 days ago | 0 comments

Reassessing Wayland (dudemanguy.github.io)
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles.

Wayland, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

110 points by GalaxySnail 72 days ago | 59 comments

Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
Yesterday, I read this blog post: Wayland Cursor Lag: Just give me a break already..., where a Linux user discusses their frustration with input latency under Wayland. They detailed their own subjective experience of the problem, but failed to produce hard evidence.

Linux, Wayland, X11, Input Latency, Performance

610 points by todsacerdoti 90 days ago | 488 comments

Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox (labwc.github.io)
Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

Wayland, Window Managers, Open Source, Linux, Graphics

72 points by NeutralForest 112 days ago | 16 comments

An X11 apologist tries Wayland (artemis.sh)
I think it’s only fair to call me an X apologist. I get incredibly frustrated when people talk about dropping support for X11. I fight back against the notion that some day X11 will be dead and unmaintained, a curiosity of a time before. I’ve spoken to people in my circles at-length about the accessibility tools that Wayland simply hasn’t been capable of supporting that X11 has.

X11, Wayland, Linux, Open Source, Accessibility

14 points by fanf2 116 days ago | 0 comments

Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging (phoronix.com)
In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion.

Linux, Open Source, Graphics, Color Management, Wayland

64 points by voxadam 147 days ago | 30 comments

Miracle tiling Wayland window manager (miracle-wm.org)
Miracle is a tiling Wayland window manager built on top of Mir.

Window Managers, Wayland, Linux, Open Source, Software

8 points by gtirloni 178 days ago | 0 comments

Raspberry Pi OS's yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official (arstechnica.com)
Pi owners should hardly notice any changes, though performance will improve.

Raspberry Pi, Operating Systems, Wayland, Linux

15 points by Brajeshwar 179 days ago | 4 comments

Sway 1.10 Released with GPU Reset Recovery and Other Wayland Enhancements (phoronix.com)
Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop.

Linux, Software, Wayland, Open Source, Desktop Environments

11 points by laktak 180 days ago | 0 comments

Wayland: I3 to Sway Migration – Anarcat (anarc.at)
I originally held back from migrating to Wayland: it seemed like a complicated endeavor hardly worth the cost. It also didn't seem actually ready.

Wayland, Window Managers, Linux, Open Source

28 points by ossusermivami 183 days ago | 15 comments

Nvidia Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors (phoronix.com)
At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API.

Nvidia, Wayland, Vulkan, Graphics, Linux

4 points by undercut 197 days ago | 0 comments

Cursor Size Problems in Wayland (blogs.kde.org)
I've been fixing cursor problems on and off in the last few months. Here's a recap of what I've done, explanation of some cursor size problems you might encounter, and how new developments like Wayland cursor shape protocol and SVG cursors might improve the situation.

Wayland, Linux, User Interface, Cursor, Graphics

5 points by LorenDB 199 days ago | 1 comments

Valve announces Frog Protocols to bypass slow Wayland development (freedesktop.org)
This MR adds support for the 'frog-fifo-v1' protocol from frog-protocols, a new repo of Wayland protocols that we intend to be more iterative and experimental than upstream.

Linux, Open Source, Software, Operating Systems, Wayland

38 points by DonnieBurger 214 days ago | 5 comments

IntelliJ IDEs supports Wayland now (jetbrains.com)

IDE, Wayland, Software, Programming

81 points by nitinreddy88 247 days ago | 23 comments

Making a Wayland Screen Capturing Protocol (yngvason.is)

Wayland, Screen Recording, Linux

18 points by any1 258 days ago | 1 comments

XWayland Ruined and Saved Wayland Development [video] (youtube.com)

Wayland, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Video

7 points by Rinzler89 265 days ago | 0 comments

wlmaker – A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker (github.com/phkaeser)