Author: intrigeri Date: To: tails-testers Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] 5.8~beta1 report
Hi,
k9glrflkhvubl7qe--- via Tails-testers (2022-11-17): >> I don't see XWayland going away any time soon.
>
> Isn't that security issue though? Of course, running most applications
> natively on
> Wayland is better than not doing it, but I think Tails shouldn't use
> Xwayland at all
> and remove it completely in future.
In principle I agree. In practice it's going to take time for all apps
to be ready to run as native Wayland.
>> We use xclip in our test suite so we cannot do that.
>
> May I ask why can't you replace it in the test suite as well if Tails will
> be using
> Wayland? wl-clipboard is basically "xclip for Wayland" so it should have
> the same
> functionality.
We use xclip in our Pidgin tests. Does wl-clipboard support XWayland apps?
