THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD on Nostr: "Wayland proxy is load balancer between Wayland compositor and Wayland client. It ...
"Wayland proxy is load balancer between Wayland compositor and Wayland client. It prevents Wayland client to be disconnected by Wayland compositor if Wayland client is bussy or under heavy load."
I'm laughing my ass off. Apparently, Wayland compositors will kill the client if it fails to read events quick enough. This might happen if the client software froze or... if you have a 1000hz mouse that generates too many events. And instead of fixing the compositor behaviour, Red Hat decided... to add a proxy that caches messages for the application to process.
These people are the reason "software engineering" is treated as an oxymoron.
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Proxy-Firefox
I'm laughing my ass off. Apparently, Wayland compositors will kill the client if it fails to read events quick enough. This might happen if the client software froze or... if you have a 1000hz mouse that generates too many events. And instead of fixing the compositor behaviour, Red Hat decided... to add a proxy that caches messages for the application to process.
These people are the reason "software engineering" is treated as an oxymoron.
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Proxy-Firefox