Pure wayland terminal

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rmomota

Hello there!

I'm thinking on changing my terminal, not because I'm unhappy with it or it doesn't fit my needs but because I'm looking for the best for wayland/wayfire without dragging thousands of code lines for X11 compatibility.
I was initially using xfce4-terminal when using X11 but then I switched to Alacritty.
But this one still drags X11 code with it and so I'm now switching again to Foot (Foo Terminal) which is 100% wayland ready code.
But this one has something I don't like that much, the server+client mode.
I can run it standalone and I can run a server then launch several lightweight clients 2.32 MB mem each instance against 75MB of the first xfce4-terminal instance.
I foot server is 52MB, still lower than xfce4-terminal.

I would like to know if there are better ones, what most people use in wayland.
 
SirDice said:
Note that most packages are built by default with both X11 and Wayland support.
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xwayland, right?
X11 is deprecated.
I somehow agree that there should be retro compatibility but that has to be a temporary product stage and not forever.
How much longer will apps be dragging legacy code?
 
this
techhut.tv

Wayland is Taking Over... Will 2026 Be The Death of X11? - TechHut

For years, Linux users have been experiencing the transition from X11 to Wayland. However, with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.8 both dropping support for X11, people are declaring the death of X11. But, is X11 actually dead, or will it remain around? With that, this article goes over the state of...
techhut.tv techhut.tv

and mostly this
discourse.gnome.org

Deprecated X11 backend

Hello Gnome, I have been told that the X11 backend has been deprecated and is to be removed in GTK 5. Not very long ago, applications launched with the GL rendering API by default. The default backend was then changed to Wayland, and the default rendering API to GLES. Does the deprecation of...
discourse.gnome.org discourse.gnome.org
 
sure it will not be gone if X11 developers/community keep writing code
the problem is there will be that day when all DE are no longer using it.

something like arcade gaming shops, all practically gone because no one's going there nowadays
PlayStation, Nintendo etc killed it
 
When I first started with FreeBSD ~30 years ago it was supposedly dead or dying. Guess what? We're still here. The same will true for X11.

rmomota said:
something like arcade gaming shops, all practically gone because no one's going there nowadays
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Why are there no video rentals any more? Why are a lot of brick-and-mortar stores closing? Is it because nobody buys those things any more? Or is there another reason? Arcades still exist, games still get made and sold.
 
rmomota said:
something like arcade gaming shops, all practically gone because no one's going there nowadays
PlayStation, Nintendo etc killed it
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News to me. Round1 and Dave and Busters are thriving here in my neck of the woods. Round1 in particular, keeps opening new stores.
 
rmomota said:
xwayland, right?
X11 is deprecated.
I somehow agree that there should be retro compatibility but that has to be a temporary product stage and not forever.
How much longer will apps be dragging legacy code?
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I think it's nonsense. Never used Wayland, though. Why can't it be just a program? Wanting to be native system-wide graphics screen isn't a commercial lobby? What's the practical advantage?

If you can play full-res video in X.org, what can Wayland still require that X doesn't have? It's the same graphics hardware. There's something wrong with this...
 
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