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Originally Posted by karan5chaos View Post
Really interesting !
Would it work on SFOS Ports aswell ?
Also I'm a noob in linux and it's commands so can someone explain me what kind of apps we would be able to run with this ?
Thank you.
While Sailfish is a linux operating system, it differs from most distributions in that it uses the newer Wayland protocol instead of the X windowing system (or X11) that the majority of distributions use.

This is important for any piece of software that has a window. Most of them are built to use X11. In order to allow them to run on a system that uses Wayland, XWayland has been developed, but until now, I think I'm right in saying it hasn't been possible to run it on Sailfish.

So this removes that constraint, and will make it possible for applications that needed an X server to run, to run on Sailfish. Examples are Libreoffice, Gimp, Thunderbird, etc.

Read about
a) Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)

b) X Window System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

c) XWayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylan...ibility_with_X
 

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