Why I went back to Xorg, for now

Desktop Environments Gnome
#1

No doubt Wayland may become the Gnome display manager of the future, but it’s far from there yet. I would give it maybe a year.

I am aware that Xorg was designed in the days when “hacking” meant a fast coder, so I get it that Wayland has security in the forefront of the developers’ minds. But, alas, I must return to Xorg, at least for now.

The feature that improves my workflow, is to drag a program to the workspace thumbnail. I do this because Automove Windows extension does not load the pages as ordered in either Wayland or Xorg.

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If anyone knows how to get scroll wheel to cycle through the workspaces, and get Automove Windows to do what it claims, to load workspaces with applications, then I might consider Wayland again. Until then, Xorg does at least scroll through workspaces. Has Wayland given us a a Alt-F2 shortcut?

#2

Yeah, I need Xeyes, so Wayland is out of the question, for now.

eyes

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#3

But I see you are also security conscious. What can be done to beef up Xorg’s security?

#4

Never, ever connect to the internet - that should help :rofl:

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#5

Be mindful of the software you’re running. Check the PKGBUILD and makefiles when installing from the AUR. Don’t download random “pirated” flatpaks :rofl:

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#6

Always do, and AUR is my last resort

Have not found a need to install any flatpaks yet.

Great tips, thank you.

#7

At work, and it has been a while since I used gnome, does Gnome Wayland work with wmctrl? I know bits of it work under wayland. Does

wmctrl -s 2

Change the desktop to desktop 3. If it does you can script everything.

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#8

It does.

#9

So, a quick script would do it:

#!/bin/bash
wmctrl -s <desknumber> # Numbering starts at 0 = desktop 1
<application-name>&

Then copy the desktop file to <can’t remember - /usr/share/local/applications just a guess> :smiley: , to overide the one in /usr/share/applications and edit the exec line and put the script in.

Or just use xorg :rofl:

:edit: ~/.local/share/applications is probably the correct place.

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#10

Electrified canasta wire. Machine gun emplacements. Antitank obstructions.

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#11

I also prefer Xorg but gnome is unusable for me at the moment. I upload and download a lot of images so I’ll be using KDE and XFCE until they fix the file choser window

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#12

Fair point but you say Gnome is the problem not Wayland.

#13

Yeah. The reason I don’t use Wayland is different

It’s because I’m on a laptop and I don’t like using the libinput driver on touchpads. The lack of settings options and inability to get rid of the dead edges makes it unusable for me

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#14

How does Xorg help with that? I am also on a laptop and tried tweaking libinput to stop the jerky touchpad control.