| https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland Found that pretty quickly and it doesn't go down a point-by-point feature comparison but gives you some idea of what's up in the "introduction" where it notes that Wayland doesn't include things like keymapping functionality, so that's all up to each compositor to implement. Excerpt: > From a user's point of view, Wayland is nothing more than a framework. In particular, Wayland itself does not implement any display server that should correspond to the Xorg server. In Wayland, compositors are display servers, implemented by various projects. A compositor also serves as X's window manager (and X's compositor). > This means users first have to choose a compositor, and via that compositor they "configure the server", i.e. set screen resolutions, input and video drivers options, etc. > [...] > Some lack of specification results in chaos more or less. For example one common complaint as of 2021 is that key remapping is absent in the Wayland protocol - in Wayland there is nothing that corresponds to xmodmap of X. Each compositor offers, if any, their own way to remap keys. > The situation however is not totally random - many compositors depend on the library "wlroots", which abstracts such common tasks, and is aimed to be impartial. First started as a subproject of the compositor Sway, it now is used by many compositors. Exceptions include mutter and KWin, i.e. GNOME and KDE, and Weston. TL;DR minor WM/DE projects have circled around wlroots as a life-raft to fill in the missing functionality, while major ones have gone their own way, resulting in extremely basic functionality potentially being wildly different (and having a different set of bugs and quirks and how-to-configure-and-use-it) depending on which compositor you're running, or even simply being absent on some. [EDIT] Unsurprisingly, Gentoo's cousin distro (if you will), Arch, has an even better page on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland Note especially the part where it's possible for a given compositor not to work with certain graphics hardware, while others will. That's how little help Wayland gives to desktop environments and window managers. To get the equivalent of Xorg you'd have to get everyone to agree on a single fairly-big and featureful compositor and only use that. Or, good lord, look at the display manager support table. LOL. |