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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active May 18, 2024 04:21
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.

Wayland proponents make it seem like Wayland is "the successor" of Xorg, when in fact it is not. It is merely an incompatible alternative, and not even one that has (nor wants to have) feature parity (missing features). And unlike X11 (the X Window System), Wayland protocol designers actively avoid the concept of "windows" (making up incompr

@deshion
deshion / get_options.sh
Last active May 11, 2024 01:44
Parse command line options for a shell script (POSIX)
#!/bin/sh
# POSIX
# Reset all variables that might be set
file=
verbose=0 # Variables to be evaluated as shell arithmetic should be initialized to a default or validated beforehand.
while :; do
case $1 in
-h|-\?|--help) # Call a "show_help" function to display a synopsis, then exit.
@rafaelbiriba
rafaelbiriba / install_ffmpeg_libfdkaac.sh
Last active May 11, 2024 23:02
Install FFmpeg with libfdk_aac support (For Ubuntu)
# Criando um script .sh para executar todos os comandos:
#root@servidor:~# vi script.sh
#root@servidor:~# chmod +x script.sh
#root@servidor:~# ./script.sh
apt-get update
apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential git-core libass-dev libgpac-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libtool libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev pkg-config texi2html zlib1g-dev libmp3lame-dev nasm gcc yasm && true
mkdir ~/ffmpeg_sources
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac.git