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I was able to build a “pure” Wayland system with as little to no Xorg packages (such as xcb or libX11).
Biggest issue(s) with such a system:
o Cannot build Wayland-only [graphical] web browser. Webkit2gtk is notoriously glitchy and crashes too often to be usable. Firefox still depends on X11 and GTK. I’ve heard some individuals have built Firefox without GTK2 and X11 BUT Libc was Glibc not musl. I am tempted to either build my own browser or attempt to build a browser based on Firefox
o Most packages rely on OpenGL/GLX
o GDK-pixbuf fails to load sometimes
So far, building a pure Wayland system then adding Xorg libs [to add xwayland support) usually breaks the graphics stack (Firefox fails to load, Mesa test programs segfault). Building Xorg then Wayland seems to have a lower chance of breaking the graphics stack.
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I was able to build a “pure” Wayland system with as little to no Xorg packages (such as xcb or libX11).
Biggest issue(s) with such a system:
o Cannot build Wayland-only [graphical] web browser. Webkit2gtk is notoriously glitchy and crashes too often to be usable. Firefox still depends on X11 and GTK. I’ve heard some individuals have built Firefox without GTK2 and X11 BUT Libc was Glibc not musl. I am tempted to either build my own browser or attempt to build a browser based on Firefox
o Most packages rely on OpenGL/GLX
o GDK-pixbuf fails to load sometimes
So far, building a pure Wayland system then adding Xorg libs [to add xwayland support) usually breaks the graphics stack (Firefox fails to load, Mesa test programs segfault). Building Xorg then Wayland seems to have a lower chance of breaking the graphics stack.
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