On Abandoning the X Server
It&#x27;s a couple of years old, but this post on <i>&quot;Why I&#x27;m not going to switch to Wayland yet.&quot;</i>[1] summarizes some of the concerns I have about switching to Wayland:<p><i>&quot;at the moment there are several types of applications that not only don&#x27;t
work in wayland, but would be very difficult, or impossible to work natively in all major wayland compositors.</i><p><i>Examples (in order of importance to me):</i><p><pre><code>  * Programmatic output configuration (xrandr, arandr, etc.)
  * CLI clipboard access (xsel, xclip)
  * Third party app launcher&#x2F;window switcher (rofi, dmenu, albert, docky).
  * Clipboard managers (parcellite, klipper, Gpaste, clipman, etc.)
  * Third party screen shot&#x2F;capture&#x2F;share (shutter, OBS, ffmpeg, import, peek, scrot, VNC, etc.)
  * Color picker (gpick, gcolor3, kcolorchooser)
  * xdotool
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Until Wayland has all these (and more) and they are as stable and feature-rich as the existing apps on X, I will not willingly switch to Wayland.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wayland&#x2F;comments&#x2F;85q78y&#x2F;why_im_not_going_to_switch_to_wayland_yet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wayland&#x2F;comments&#x2F;85q78y&#x2F;why_im_not_...</a>