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I have a super petty reason for disliking wayland. There are no cool retro Desktops/WMs for it. On X I can run shit like WindowMaker, CTWM and if I want to CDE.

That and my xdotool scripts don’t work.

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Kind of have to agree w/you. I run KDE on Wayland, it's pretty good, but I'd like to have a really slimmed down desktop like XFCE run on Wayland, possibly on BSD too as well as Linux. That would indeed be killer. CDE? Man..I didn't even know CDE is around anymore.

It’s open source now and somewhat fragile / buggy. I haven’t been able to get it working on Linux yet but the FreeBSD port was quite easy to build.

> the FreeBSD port was quite easy to build

Forget easy to build; it's in the official ports tree; you can `pkg install cde` :)

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/cde/

Think of it this way: we get to use "cutting edge" things on Wayland now which people will be calling retro in a few years.

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