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by sweeter 619 days ago
On Wayland, the compositor can either let windows draw their own borders, or it can disallow it. On X11, if a window want's to draw its own decorations... it will just do it, and you won't be able to do anything about it.

Pretty much every single Wayland compositor follows this except for GNOME, who refuse to do so. It causes problems with windows like Davinci Resolve who don't draw their own decos. This leaves some windows without any controls at all lol. But this is a tangent and purely a GNOME problem.
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HKH2 619 days ago
> This leaves some windows without any controls at all lol.

Don't all WMs have shortcut keys anyway?

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sweeter 619 days ago
I mean yeah... But most people are going to have trouble with that, especially being unable to resize or move the window. I even saw a tech Youtuber try out gnome and they were baffled on why they couldn't move or resize davinci resolve whatsoever. Its almost shameful how negligent and hard-headed gnome is being.
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HKH2 618 days ago
They say they want software freedom, but in reality you have to use their software their way or you will suffer.

I gave up when even normal settings were hidden and I had to use Gnome Tweak Tool, but when I upgraded, I found all my changes had been wiped.

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