Wayland was the worst turn the Linux desktop world could ever take. No accessibility²³, no compatibility with the most prevalent graphics cards (NVidia*) and no use for anyone other than maintainers¹.<p>Also, lots of bugs in derived works (e.g. KDE) and due to hostility of maintainers noone wants to file bugs for Wayland. Yeah I know this gets flagged, but maybe it inspires others to compete with Wayland. I'd welcome to join.<p>¹ <a href="https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers" rel="nofollow">https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers</a><p>² <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Wayland" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Wayland</a><p>³ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25175894" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25175894</a>
It's a bit bigger scale than xdotool. It's also intended for things like vnc & remote desktop use.<p>Alas, there seems to be a lot of tension between wlroots & libei on these matters. It's not super clear to me what the clash actually is over, but it's been quite tense, in my view, and wlroots maintainers seem quite dug in.<p>Edit: theres a bunch of related issues, but it actually resolved with more amicability than I had remembered. Some tension that libei was it's own protocol, and a question of how it would integrate with Wayland... <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei/-/issues/2" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libei/-/issues/2</a>