Andreas Krey

Andreas Krey

@andrkrey.bsky.social

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And of course xwayland/#wayland/#sway will mangle xterm's pixel-perfect layout. Who woudn't hav expected this? (wayland-side screendump scaled 4x; the xwd dump on the X11 side looks good.)

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When you read 'The obvious replacement for i3lock is swaylock.'¹ - that's pure stockholm syndrome. If #wayland was designed anywhere sane, there'd be a screen lock program you could use with any compositor (and where you don't have to hope it never crashes). ¹ michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-0...

michael.stapelberg.chCan I finally start using Wayland in 2026?Wayland is the successor to the X server (X11, Xorg) to implement the graphics stack on Linux. The Wayland project was actually started in 2008, a year before I created the i3 tiling window manager fo...
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Current linuxen make it really hard to run two user sessions on the same hosts - there's just one display manager, and e.g. gnome can't be properly started from the CLI on another VT. And they know why. #wayland

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No, #wayland without Xwayland is still unusable for most purposes. Given that wayland was to get rid of X11, we'll be stuck for it for a very long time, apparently. And o/c every compositor needs its personal support for Xwayland. Did you think Xwayland just talks wayland protocol. 'course not.

You configured your screen configuration in gnome, and want to try #sway? Well, do your configuration again. No #xrandr equivalent. Your fourth mouse button? Dito. Keyboard layout? Dito.

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Die Hitze macht auch vor den Wehrlosen in unserer Gesellschaft nicht Halt - den Autos. Wir brauchen jetzt eine nationale Förderungsinitiative für den Umstieg auf Monstertrucks, die mit aufgerissenem Asphalt problemlos zurecht kommen und sich für die Mad-Max-Endzeitkämpfe der Zukunft eignen.