XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience

Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan just announced the stable release of XWayland 24.1 as the newest feature release for this X.Org Server code allowing X11 clients to work within the confines of Wayland compositors...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-Released

[pharmasolin]

Another win for wayland

[slagiewka]

AFAIR nvidia 555 driver is supposed to be dropped any day now (or even any hour).

[MorrisS.]

Good improvement in the process.

[bple2137]

I wonder if the rootful initiative will stop there to only allow running more nested sessions inside one big window (which is still nice to have and allows working around at least some issues) or if there eventually be way to run it headlessly with some buffer swapping to allow seamless integration (like current Xwayland) but with per-app scaling/output setup. That wouldn’t be perfect because one can still put many windows of the same applications on screens with different DPIs (and compositor must choose one + rescale all others), but it’s fair enough compromise and the best it could ever be.

EDIT: oh, and as a bonus it would separate X apps from one another improving security

[jeisom]

EDIT: oh, and as a bonus it would separate X apps from one another improving security

Honestly, separating them would probably be a good idea. A lot of the security concerns are related to programs having access to other running programs on the same server and Xwayland by itself doesn’t solve those when running X11 native apps. Combine that with containerization/isolation security features would definitely be an improvement.

[Hazel]

Oh no, here we go again.

[andyprough]

No need for any of this silliness. Just re-write all applications (in Rust of course) to be 100% Wayland compatible. Problem solved.

[bple2137]

No need for any of this silliness. Just re-write all applications (in Rust of course) to be 100% Wayland compatible. Problem solved.

Nah, X is not going anywhere. Some projects don’t plan or want to move away from X11 any time soon and there are still some missing puzzles to solve on the Wayland side, too. I bet we will still run X clients in next 10 years, but likely much longer.

[Jonjolt]

Nah, X is not going anywhere. Some projects don’t plan or want to move away from X11 any time soon and there are still some missing puzzles to solve on the Wayland side, too. I bet we will still run X clients in next 10 years, but likely much longer.

I think the /s was implied