To be clear, many of us will have already been using Firefox in Wayland mode by default, if our distro enabled it.
E.g. Fedora Workstation has had Firefox in Wayland mode since Fedora 31
And it’s thanks to the work of those people that it has finally made it upstream, specially Fedora’s Martin Stránský (who has been doing tons of work on Firefox, including making Fedora the first distro to ship Firefox with VA-API enabled by default).
Silly question but does that include Fedora spins like the KDE spin? I think the last time I checked Firefox it still said it was running through XWayland (although that was a while ago)
Please educate me
What’s wayland?
According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland
Wayland is a display server protocol. It is aimed to become the successor of the X Window System. You can find a comparison between Wayland and Xorg on Wikipedia.
A compositor. Wikipedia
Requires login. Any word on when it’s making in stable?
Updated the link, hopefully it works now. Weirdly enough I was sure the original link I shared didn’t require it
Potentially related, not sure: does anyone know how I can get touchscreen scrolling working in Firefox on a fresh Ubuntu 23.10 install? Currently it’s just selecting text and it’s driving me up the proverbial wall. Googling was unsuccessful.
Try
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox.Yep, dat werkte, dank! Maf dat dat niet standaard is.
Not sure if Firefox supports that… For what I remember, PostmarketOS, Ubuntu touch and other mobile linux distros actually patch Firefox for allowing that behaviour
Huzzah!
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Wayland does not work properly on NVidia hardware
That’s a feature, stop buying hardware from vendors that treat GNU/Linux and *BSD users as second-class citizens and locks them into proprietary drivers.
Wayland is biased toward Linux and breaks BSD
Seems to work just fine on FreeBSD.
Wayland breaks games
Games are developed for X11. And if you run a game on Wayland, performance is subpar due to things like forced vsync. Only recently, some Wayland implementations (like KDE KWin) let you disable that.
Gaming performance is actually better on Wayland.
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I suppose it explains why people have a bad attitude about Wayland when tools providing useful functionality are described as trojans.
X11 can (…mostly…) have great security by just providing a suitable X Security module to it. It just seems it wasn’t considered that big of an issue that anyone bothered. Nokia Maemo/Meego used to rock such a module.
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By that logic, is the compositor working any different than a trojan? Is there really a difference?
The Wayland compositor is always capturing all your keyboard and mouse as well. No permissions asked. Pretty sus.
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