Justine SmithiesMay 22
Playing around with #Labwc and it's really quite nice. I could get used to a stacking #Wayland compositor and the best bit is it can window snap to the edges too. So it's okay for basic tiling like most. I have built labwc myself from their repo though just to get the latest updates.
#FreeBSD
Show threadJerry 🇸🇪May 23
@justine
Very nice background, but what a those options that were not yet available? I've been using xfce for years and the transparency and snapping has always been there.
I read about Wayland and several apps having problems with it. What is the big plus of Wayland?
Show threadJustine SmithiesMay 23
I've been daily drive Wayland for about 5 years now in various window managers and I've had no issues. It's just a matter of learning who it works and there are plenty of replacement apps that do the same as your old ones from X. Also I think that you can run the latest xfce with labwc to get the Wayland experience.
Show threadJerry 🇸🇪May 23
@justine I installed Wayland during a new laptop installation earlier this year because it was newer, but then some apps behaved erratically so reinstalled everything using X. I still don't understand what Wayland has to offer more than X. I like new things, but, I want to see why I need to switch. What's the gain?
Show threadHannes Deeken

@jerry1970 @justine

Security, for one thing. With X, every app can read all your keystrokes, for example.

May 23 at 8:38amWeb
Show threadJerry 🇸🇪May 23
@justine @Glenlivet Aha that is interesting, I didn't know that.