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 threadJackGreenEarth
Proper screen sharing and xclicker is Why I occasionally switch back to X
Jun 28, 2024 at 7:33amWeb
Show threadtheshatterstone54Jun 28, 2024
Have you tried using ydotool or other wayland alternatives to xclicker? Last I used it, ydotool ran great.
Show threadJackGreenEarthJun 28, 2024
No, discoverability for these things must be quite bad, as I did fairly extensive research on Wayland autoclickers but didn’t hear of ydotool.
Show threadJackGreenEarthJun 28, 2024
Xclicker is a GUI autoclicker. I heard of a command line tool for Wayland, but it didn’t seem to exactly be an autoclicker, and I don’t really like command line tools in general.
Show threadtheshatterstone54Jun 29, 2024

Oh I absolutely get it. But I guess someone will eventually end up making a GUI for ydotool (or so I hope). Alternatively, there is this (Wayland support is WIP): github.com/RMPR/atbswp

When I say I get it, I mean there was a time I kept Xorg around only so I can use PyAutoGUI (I no longer need it but if I did, I’d have probably created wrapper scripts to allow PyAutoGUI to call grim instead of scrot when on Wayland, or something like that).

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