On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 12:31 PM Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 19:28, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
also it seems this upgrade has borked xclip, which is a can't-live-without
Did anyone think Wayland was a good idea? A desktop without a working clipboard?? And by working, I mean "the way it always did before"
When change makes things better, we love it. When it interferes with the way we work, we hate it. But the reality is that Linux has to evolve. And you can either learn how to rewrite 'xclip' yourself or find a replacement if it doesn't work anymore. That's the wonder and horror of open source. Yes, Wayland is causing a lot of grief. But go talk to Scott about it sometime: he's got me convinced that it's a very good idea ... we just have to struggle through the rough spots.
Hmmmmmm - - - - well - - - - I've been running a multi-gpu system since early 2012. Initially I ran the nvidia proprietary drivers and SLI. Later I switched to nouveau. For 4 monitors that worked not too bad. Then I needed to replace a gpu. Then decided to add a 4k monitor. The 5th monitor has really shown a lot of cracks in the underlying systems. It seems that HDMI code is not where it needs to be. I got tired of graphics subsystem freezes so I am presently not using the 5th monitor. I had tried nvidia's proprietary code - - - - except its now adamantly anti multi-gpu so there is this wonderful hole that seems to be quite ignored by the dev community. I've had many ask why I would want all that screen real estate - - - - I wouldn't want to work without it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wayland - - - - no way even close to allowing such (multi-gpu + multi-monitor) - - - - so - - - from me it gets a shrug - - - - I've got enough issues without trying to pummel Wayland into something useful. I understand that Xorg is severely pooh poohed - - - still works better than any of the alternatives - - - - - wish it handled multi-lingual better than it does. Regards