Wayland/Xlibre

[Justin Zobel]

On 3/12/25 10:03, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM Justin Zobel<justin at 1707.io> wrote:
>> On 3/12/25 08:54, Tobias Leupold wrote:
>>
>> I'd love continuing seeing freedom of choice
>>
>> This exists and everyone is free to take the x11 code that is currently in KWin, Plasma and other related components and use it. When that code is removed from KDE repositories, anyone is free to maintain their own patch set on top of KDE's code to re-enable x11. I think that is the freedom we all have with open source code.
>>
>> I have been Wayland only with all of my devices for about 2 years now and haven't found a need to go back. The amount of things that *require* x11 are almost nil. XWayland supports a great deal of things transparently, so much that I often forget it exists.
>>
>> There is (from my understanding) basically no need to continue using X, many distros are now defaulting to it and the major players are intending to drop it because it is old and practically unmaintained, as well as having (again from my understanding) multiple issues in relation to security.
>>
> And KDE Plasma is also unusual among Wayland environments in giving
> unparalleled backward compatibility to X11 applications. We have a
> settings panel for this in System Settings, and if you install
> xwaylandvideobridge, you even have a way for X11 applications that
> need to access the screen to see things on the Wayland desktop *that
> you control*.
>
> I have basically never needed the X11 session in four years because of
> the awesome work the KDE Plasma developers have done in providing this
> functionality in Plasma Wayland.

xwaylandvideobridge is now retired: 
https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge

> --
> 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
Justin
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