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		pmontra on Feb 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg repl... I think I'll wait until every screen sharing, video calling application I use will work with Wayland. Pasting selected text with middle button is also very important to me (huge time saver) and it seems not to work with Wayland yet.

p_l on Feb 2, 2021 [–]

Basic things like embedding windows (and thus classic, non-remote-puppet-over-dbus) systrays are impossible, which funnily enough break things like signing my tax forms with digital signature...

bkor on Feb 2, 2021 | [–]

That can be done using subsurfaces, see https://wayland-book.com/surfaces-in-depth/subsurfaces.html.

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