alright. How?
Set WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and relogin.
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Known issues with Wayland that the devs don't want to fix. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland
screen recording
remote display
Remote desktop and vm applications don't grab input
So yeah. Anyone that wants to use it in the enterprise or for vms, or for screen capturing is out of luck. Since the overwhelming majority of software in existence that do these features don't work/ will never work on wayland, there is a large problem here.
And how to fully purge wayland from the system?
if you don't enable it it don't work. Would you purge the ability to render the colour red from your system if you only use blue and green?
you bet your ass I would.
EDIT: I am also angry right now. I need to chill.
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Don't see why your getting so worked up over it. In any distribution running wayland (almost all of them) you can switch check between Wayland and xorg at login.
In fact, you've probably been using Wayland for a while without even realising it as a lot of distros default to Wayland for the login manager, and default to something (Wayland or xorg) for the desktop manager.
It's as simple as picking what you want and it remembers for next time.
Software development takes time. Amdgpu was a step backwards.. until recently. Even then, you could still call it a step backwards without opengl 4.5 enabled. Does that mean it's bad, of course not, instead you do something about it.
Screen capture isn't not allowed. It's just not allowed by untrusted non system applications. Hense why screen capture works fine in Wayland. Just the current non Wayland applications need to plug into that and work to get that working correctly. Not based on some 30 year old architecture that never considered security.
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that would be all of them.
Yeah, so they need to work on that, it's a shift in architecture. It's not a bad thing, and yeah, not everything is going to work right away, not everything is going to be smooth. That doesn't mean it's bad.
Btw to answer your original question. Green recorder.
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You are missing the purpose of Wayland. To replace X11 in the desktop, to be secure, and faster.
1) whether they will add screen recording capabilities to the Wayland Standard Spec, IDK. It seems to be out of the scope at the moment. However as they have stated, and shown on the weston compositor. That functionality can be implemented on at the compositor level. which is how the gnome recording stuff works. Its just a matter of defining an open/free desktop standard and have all the desktop follow it. its not a Wayland problem.
2) X11 is a network protocol, Wayland is not. Remote desktop can be implemented at the compositor level. Have you use Chrome remote desktop on X11?, works amazing and it does not use X, something like that could be implemented at the compositor level.
3) By grabbing input you mean?
Thanks
Luis
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And we're all benefitting from the lower overhead. X11 has become quite chunky lol
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