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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active July 4, 2024 19:45
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

The Wayland project seems to operate like they were starting a greenfield project, whereas at the same time they try to position Wayland as "the X11 successor", which would clearly require a lot of thought about not breaking, or at least providing a smooth upgrade path for, existing software.

In fact, it is merely an incompatible alternative, and not e

@ertseyhan
ertseyhan / remount.sh
Created February 2, 2016 20:51
Temporarily increase size of tmp folder on Arch linux
#!/bin/bash
sudo mount -o remount,size=10G,noatime /tmp
echo "Done. Please use 'df -h' to make sure folder size is increased."
@ruario
ruario / h264-vivaldi-linux.md
Last active March 18, 2023 11:17
How to enable HTML5 MP4 (H.264/AAC) video in Vivaldi for Linux, via an alternative FFMpeg library
@sneetsher
sneetsher / locate-pointer.c
Last active July 6, 2021 13:59
Some windows manager missing option to locate mouse pointer as accessibity feature.
/*
*
* File: locate-pointer.c
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* Some windows manager missing option to locate mouse pointer as accessibity feature.
* To get transparent window need to activate `composite` service for wm.
* Coded in c / xlib / cairo so it can work in most wm's.
*
* Coded by: Abdellah Chelli
* Date: January 2015