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CooKiECruNChEr43

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x11 and Wayland [Solved]

On youtube and on the internet in general, you can find many videos/articles on Wayland being the replacement for x11. Openbox relies heavily on x11 as far as I know. What are the plans of the developers of Bunsenlabs for the future?

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johnraff

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Re: x11 and Wayland [Solved]

I think the consensus among BL developers at the moment is that we'll continue to support X11 for as long as Debian does.

At the same time, we're planning a "plugin" metapackage that will allow a BL Carbon system to boot to a basic Wayland session. That should arrive before too long, but it won't be a full-featured system like X11, more like a testbench for users.

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Re: x11 and Wayland [Solved]

To add to that, the problem with Wayland at the moment is that some video cards benefit from it, like my internal Intel card, while some completely struggle *nVidia*. So, X11 for this release at least. As clumsy as it is to create xorg.conf.d/20-something.conf, it still works most of the time.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … figuration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ … figuration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … figuration

Also, Openbox doesn't run on Wayland, and a lot of BL users are fans of that window manager. labwc, developed by @malm and company, is a Wayland compositor that is based on Openbox...

https://github.com/labwc/labwc#readme
https://labwc.github.io/
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9639

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CooKiECruNChEr43

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Re: x11 and Wayland [Solved]

Thank you for your answer, both of you.