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		Symmetry on May 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wayland anti-FUD For Xorg to vanish every application that relies on it would have to be ported to Wayland, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

hollerith on May 12, 2012 [–]

if Emacs and either Google Chrome or Firefox get ported to Wayland and Wayland fixes some of the problems with X, then Wayland will have made my life better even if I still need X to run other applications.

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