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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active December 9, 2025 11:38
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

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.

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@samba2
samba2 / vscode-java-formatter.md
Created December 25, 2019 10:13
Visual Studio Code Java - Method Chain Formatting

Issue

By default VS Code Java squeezes chained methods into one line. The goal is to have VS Code Java behave similary to IntelliJ: the second and following methods are properly indented but not pulled back to the line which started the method chain.

In short:

Is (not good)

#!/bin/bash
########################################################
#
# ## i3_maximize.sh ##
#
# Implements maximization of a window in i3.
# Swaps the focused container into a new workspace and
# and restores it when run again.
#