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I don't know who Wayland is (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I'd be incredibly thankful

I swear that all the stuff I find is like super in depth technical stuff that just loses me in no time flat

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Q1: No, it does not require X. But some software even if not graphical, requires X libs for whatever reason (e.g. Using Qt)

Edit: to answer Q2: I don't think there is technically a way to interact with the system without a TTY but thats technicalities. Your more practical answer is to use SSH to log in and interact. This is how most IoT things work which run Linux and have no display capability at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

thanks, but is there way to address some limitation (e.g. only one came to my mind scroll back.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Use screen?

Maybe I don't understand what you're after. But 99.9% of Linux systems don't use X. But none of those are desktop PC's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fbterm can take care of some of the limitations (use TTF fonts, for example) but support in general for nongraphical environments on Linux at the moment is not amazing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

tmux is your friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the advice