Jun 242025
 

To dip my toes into the oncoming clusterpocalypse that is Wayland, I thought I’d try something “simple”… Let’s see if there’s some way to make XScreenSaver hacks able to grab and manipulate screenshots under XWayland. Here is what I have learned so far: Words mean nothing: a “window manager” is now called a “compositor”, and a “graphical desktop environment” is now called a “shell”. Wayland is not a window system, it is a collection of hundreds or thousands of “extensions” that any given “compositor” (window manager) may or may not implement, à la carte, meaning there are actually dozens or hundreds of “Waylands”, and it’s amazing that anything works at all. There’s…

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