Re: Will GLOBE_3D/OpenGLAda be OK under Wayland ?

[onox <denkpadje@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 12:11:43 PM UTC+2, reinert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use GLOBE_3D as a binder for using OpenGL under Ada (mainly on linux/debian).
> This works very well based on X11. However, I see Wayland will soon replace
> X11 - and I am worried. 
> 
> Will GLOBE_3D still be OK under Wayland?  
> The same question, I assume, is actual for OpenGLAda.
> 
> reinert
> https://korsnesbiocomputing.no/

You can still use X11 applications via Xwayland, so old applications should still work fine. However, GLOBE_3D uses OpenGL 1.x, which is old... very old. If you want to use something a bit more modern (4.6) (for example compute shaders for some GPGPU) you might want to take a look at https://github.com/onox/orka (documentation is still WIP, so take a look at the examples/tools as well). It can be used under Wayland directly via EGL and libglfw3-wayland (v3.3). Windows worked as well when I tried it more than a year ago. As long as you're not on an apple or a potato, you're good :)