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		gentleman11 on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, work... Does each individual application have to convert to wayland, or does wayland allow you to use old xorg apps without modification?

Spivak on March 3, 2020 [–]

Yes and no.

- Apps which use toolkits like GTK and QT will “just work” since they did the porting grunt work.

- X11 apps can run unmodified using XWayland but this just runs an X.org server and directs the output.

But the literal answer is “no”. Wayland and X11 are incompatible and apps will need to port.

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