Why is it currently trending that X11 is “dead”? I still use it, never even tried Wayland…

I don’t always use Linux GUI tools, but when I do, I most likely forward them to macOS using XQuartz and ssh -YC or ssh -XC (X11 forwarding and compression).

Killing X11 will break my workflow, and I can only hope people will at least keep X11 (and XQuartz) alive in some state that allows continued usage in the places where wayland isn’t yet usable.

If you have any suggestions (especially if you know how to do the X11<->XQuartz equivalent with wayland) please let me know!

Update

I found a way of doing the forwarding from within a wayland session using XWayland, so the problem I see seems solvable, or at least circumventable, although it’s still not clear to me if this also applies to an otherwise completely GUI-less system and if I need to do any extra configuration on my servers in order to get the forwarding work as conveniently as it currently is. And while there is an Objective-C wayland client on GitHub, the last commit was four years ago, the README states it’s still in early development, and I only know Swift, so I’d have to learn Objective-C again before being able to try to work on anything in that direction.

To be honest, I think I will leave this work for future Lerk in a time when X11 forwarding doesn’t work anymore and the changes have to be made anyway (and maybe the forwarding is properly included by then, which would be a perfect outcome and solve the reason for this rant, a (in my opinion) core feature missing in the replacement of something considered legacy).