Tag: Wayland

How to migrate from X11 to Wayland?

Posted by Alex On February 12, 2024

Table of contents 1. Is Wayland or X11 better? 2. You may already be using Wayland 3. Which desktop environments support Wayland 4. Which display managers support Wayland 5. How to run Wayland 6. Setting up applications to work with Wayland 6.1 Setting up Firefox to work with Wayland 6.2 Setting up Google Chrome to work with Wayland 6.3 Setting...

How to check if Wayland or X11 is used?

Posted by Alex On February 9, 2024

Table of contents 1. What is Wayland and X11 2. How to find out if you are using Wayland or X11 on the command line 2.1 Using the session ID 2.2 Checking the $XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable 2.3 Checking the WAYLAND_DISPLAY and DISPLAY variables 2.4 Finding Display Server environment variables 3. How to detect whether X11 or Wayland is being used in a GUI 3.1 How to see if GNOME is...

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