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how to know whether Wayland or X11 is being used?

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  • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202891/how-to-know-whether-wayland-or-x11-is-being-used#325972
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol) – has been on my wikipedia watchlist for quite some time

I have never used Wayland so far, I only heard of it. With my new job it is sort of the enforced work environment together with ubuntu 22.x. It means quite a challenge.

  • mouse pointer focus policy
  • GNU Emacs and the caret, that dired uses for dired-up-directory – “find the parent directory”

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