• Ew0
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    11 year ago

    How so? Isn’t it rather light on resources?

    • jmcunx
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      01 year ago

      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.

      • Ew0
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        11 year ago

        You don’t need a DE, and Sway is pretty light and snappy.

        • jmcunx
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          11 year ago

          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.