It is nice they are trying to port Wayland. But I really hope Wayland does not replace xenocara. Running Wayland on old hardware will be rather hard.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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How so? Isn't it rather light on resources?
Wayland requires a Desktop Environment from what I can see. There is Sway, but that is a tiling environment, but I know little about that. So for "floating windows", all there is GNOME3, KDE and Enlightenment. DE are heavy to begin with, cwm on X is very lite on resources.
This I am not sure about, but from what I have read, all window processing (rendering) needs to be done by the "Widow manager". In X you just call functions.
You don't need a DE, and Sway is pretty light and snappy.
Yes, that is what people keep saying, but isn't sway a Tiling Window Manager ? I do not like Tiling, if something that works exactly like cwm, then I would not be too concerned about Wayland.
So far, the only choices for Wayland seems to be GMOME3, KDE, soon XFCE, the rest are tiling like sway. I just heard about Hyprland, which is also tiling.
So seems for me and I am sure others, the selection is very limited.
No sooner then I posted I ran across this:
https://hikari.acmelabs.space/
Once I am forced to use Wayland, hopefully that will still be active :)