Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:43:56 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wayland on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20200422124356.5329c504e03524a59b536cc6@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <24224.11002.960241.607629@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <CAFYkXjmfyLZAi1HZe-RE3wLxa6GRNP6GkmtZG-4T2puRDOz0JA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGLDxTX5EeL3YDUJocdOM03sRzUDi3ed9cKuNH99DieZbrhGHg@mail.gmail.com> <5058973.kMyvyFPq5o@amos> <CAB4989B-95E7-43B6-B338-B9524B9D9FDA@kreme.com> <20200421150741.28dd6309.freebsd@edvax.de> <24223.11679.688616.192643@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20200422023243.GA81187@neutralgood.org> <20200422070028.30dd2fb16ccae9b6d9cde901@sohara.org> <24224.11002.960241.607629@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:31:06 -0400 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: > > > > Oh, and is XWayland still a thing? Or the other way around? > > > > Yes to both, Xwayland is still a thing and run by default and > > you can run Wayland as an X client. > > Am I not understanding. or does that sound slow and full of > possible failure modes? It does to me, but I know little to nothing of the innermost details. I've looked into Wayland a few times in fair detail and have yet to see a benefit. I know X is decried as a security horror story, yet active exploits seem curiously rare and it has always worked well for me. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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