Proprietary drivers

[ytrezq]

1 thing Xwayland doesn t solve is proprietary drivers.

In my case, I have a Aspeed as2500 video card. It s driver is now only maintained on Windows. On linux and Freebsd it s a full userspace driver consisting of a shared object blob for Xorg named ast_drv.so that can be used with nomodeset and allow playing drm videos.

The removal of the support of Xorg for major desktop environments from Fedora leave getting a black screen as the only option or use a lightweight desktop environment that doesn t let configure things like printers or the systems timezone.

[probonopd]

Agree.

But this probably cannot be solved by adding an unofficial protocol to Wayland, can it?

[ytrezq]

It seems you re right.

I just found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system). Filesystem oriented so run on network if the Filesystem itself is networked.

[probonopd]

If it comes from Plan 9 it's probably good, but I guess there aren't many applications that support it because frameworks like Qt don't run there?

[ytrezq]

This makes Wayland yet an other example of designing something new from scratch instead of trying to revive something better.

Outside qtk and gtk, I doubt it even support OpenGl.

[marcthe12]

Well technicaly the solution would be a system compositor. Wayland compositor (aleast occurring to the docs) allows nested. There was provision of a system wide compositor (as root like XORG) if one chooses but was never implemented (except maybe cage). In theory a system compositor can be a user space driver.