KarnaJun 27, 2024

GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled

https://lemmy.ml/post/17367278

GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled - Lemmy

>For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

Show threadGolfNovemberUniformJun 27, 2024
I love the fact that it’s optional.
Show threadChewyJun 27, 2024

I wonder how long it’ll be possible to build Gnome with Xorg support. If I had to guess I’d say there won’t be any support within the next 3 years, because keeping future Gnome working with Xorg is work nobody wants to put in.

That said, Xwayland will likely keep being around for the foreseeable future.

Out of curiosity, do you use Xorg and if yes, what’s keeping you from using Wayland?

Show threadD_Air1
Not OP, but I use sunshine and moonlight for streaming my pc to various devices. Wayland forces me to use kms and I can’t turn the monitors off while I’m doing it. Someone was working on a pipewire backend, so hopefully that goes somewhere.
Jun 28, 2024 at 5:53amWeb
Show thread☂️-Jun 29, 2024
iirc GWE is unmaintained atm
Show threadD_Air1Jun 29, 2024

GWE

The primary maintainer stepped down, but there has still been work done by other contributors. The primary problem is that the underlying library is reliant on x11. This is the same reason why nvidia-settings doesn’t have all of its features on wayland. Basically if nvidia’s on tool doesn’t work then there is no way that green with envy can either. There is an open merge request attempting to switch to a different library that Nvidia says they plan to move to eventually, but it is slow going.