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Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/5946015

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed...

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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There are 2 display servers for Linux. X11, which is really old and doesn't support newer things such as HDR and the "new" kid on the hlock, Wayland. KDE, Gnome and such that make the UI you interact with on Linux utilize X11 or Wayland to render everything on the screens.

Edit correction by LinuxSBC x2

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Display servers, not window managers. Window managers are built on top of X11 or Wayland.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the correction. Honestly haven't delved with desktop Linux much though I plan on swapping from Windows again. Know things over the years, but miss the mark on some things. I corrected my original comment for accuracy.

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, though your correction is also incorrect. Display managers, like SDDM, GDM, or LightDM, are the login screen. They're called "display managers" for historical reasons, but they also run on top of the display server.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 11 months ago

Aw shucks thought I put server not manager lol.

Anecdotally, this thread reminded me of a time I circumvented my high schools filtering via using X11 to display Firefox on their Macs from a laptop I was using as a server haha.

[–] riquisimo@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey that explanation helps. Thanks.

It sounds like Wayland is the new thing and it's been around long enough that everyone plays well with it, so it's going to be the default moving forward.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's been getting there over the years. This stuff takes time to replace since it's huge and important to get it right. For reference, the initial release was 15 years ago for Wayland.