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Hackaday: Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User (hackaday.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

X11 is a display server. Wayland is a presentation layer. Different goals. I have run graphical multi-seat systems using x11. Something like that will never be possible in the same way for Wayland because it is out of the design scope

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    X11 and Wayland are both protocols.

    Xorg is a display server. In Wayland, your compositor is the display server.

    “I have run graphical multi-seat systems using x11. Something like that will never be possible in the same way for Wayland”

    I have to give you this one. Wayland is not designed to be multi-seat. I do not know about “never” but you are right that multi-seat is a design difference.

    My mind goes to this project again: https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs

    But wprs only runs one compositor so it does not inherently address multi-seat. Support for that would need to be added.

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