probonopd

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Feature comparison

bitonic

// Copyright (c) 2021 Francesco Mazzoli <[email protected]>
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robbieh

#!/bin/bash
#
# An easily-extensible "login banner". Put it in your $PATH and call it from your .bashrc.
# Mainly it shows tmux sessions.
# A "full" view with decorations is given on first run. After that a compact view is
# printed. After an hour has passed the next new terminal will give the full view agian.

columns=$( tput cols )
color1='\033[38;5;036m'
color2='\033[38;5;046m'