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    From Ralf Fassel@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 8 09:19:10 2024
    While I'm quite content with X11 (especially the X11 forwarding into my homeoffice :-), many distros nowadays introduce Wayland as #1 for the
    display server.

    Are there plans to support Wayland natively (not via XWayland) in Tk?

    R'

    PS. Now that google groups is 'gone', is there a good way to search comp.lang.tcl articles for keywords?

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  • From Petro Kazmirchuk@21:1/5 to Ralf Fassel on Wed May 8 15:34:27 2024
    On 08/05/2024 09:19, Ralf Fassel wrote:
    While I'm quite content with X11 (especially the X11 forwarding into my homeoffice :-), many distros nowadays introduce Wayland as #1 for the
    display server.

    Are there plans to support Wayland natively (not via XWayland) in Tk?

    R'

    PS. Now that google groups is 'gone', is there a good way to search comp.lang.tcl articles for keywords?

    On the second question, Rock Solid BBS seems to work fine: https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/devel/thread.php?group=comp.lang.tcl

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  • From Kevin Walzer@21:1/5 to Ralf Fassel on Sat May 11 15:47:26 2024
    On 5/8/24 3:19 AM, Ralf Fassel wrote:
    Are there plans to support Wayland natively (not via XWayland) in Tk?

    I'm not aware of any discussion around this topic. My guess is it would
    be a large undertaking, and given that our developer community is small,
    that makes it less likely to get started and get done.

    I understand Wayland is considered the newest/shiniest next-generation
    display server, but with X so entrenched, it seems unlikely that it will
    go away. Is there a real reason for a legacy toolkit like Tk to adopt
    Wayland support natively? XWayland seems like a clever bridge.

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  • From undroidwish@21:1/5 to Ralf Fassel on Sun May 12 20:44:50 2024
    On 5/8/24 09:19, Ralf Fassel wrote:

    Are there plans to support Wayland natively (not via XWayland) in Tk?

    Apparently no official plans, however, LUCKily, you could try out
    one of the undroidwishes with Wayland support as mentioned in

    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Binary+Distributions
    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/LUCK

    There are still many rough edges and loose ends, e.g. GNOME on Wayland
    insists on CSD (Client Side Decorations) which isn't exactly how the undroidwish implementation works, but for first experiments it should
    do. On the pro side you get anti-aliased rendering e.g. in the canvas
    widget and a whole lot of bundled extensions.

    Cheers,
    Christian

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