What are the benefit(s) of using Wayland over Xorg?

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  • xkbcat

    simple sudoless X11 keylogger

  • For now, the focus is getting Wayland on par with Xorg. However, there are a number of infrastructure improvements behind the scenes that make it superior to Xorg. For example, applications can no longer silently capture keystrokes without elevated privileges. Demo.

  • Mailspring

    :love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

  • Currently Mailspring uses Electron 8. There has even been a request to update Electron to version 12.

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