[Rd] Wayland Display Support in R Plot

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sun, 29 Oct 2023 19:38:20 -0000

On 30 October 2023 at 07:54, Paul Murrell wrote:
| I am unaware of any Wayland display support.
|
| One useful way forward would be an R package that provides such a device
| (along the lines of 'Cairo', 'tikzDevice', et al)

As I understand it, it is a protocol, and not a device.

Several Linux distributions have long defaulted to it, so we already should
have thousands of users. While 'not X11' it provides a compatibility
layer
and should be seamless.

I think I needed to fall back to X11 for a particular applications (likely
OBS) so my session tells me (under Settings -> About -> Windowing System)
I
am still running X11. I'll check again once I upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to
Ubuntu 23.10

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol) for more.

Dirk

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