For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to “remap” keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt
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, and pressing alt + k
simulates the arrow down key.
Secondly there’s XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.
None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there’s Espanso, but it doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts yet.
Every time I build a new box or do an upgrade, I try selecting Plasma on Wayland from the login screen. Every time it doesn’t work, I select X11, and never think of it again for another six months to two years.
Must have been a long time since you built a box.
Two years, then the drive exploded a couple weeks ago and I rebuilt it just now. Doesn’t work out of the box, X11, does, so I’ve never looked into it.
Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It’s hard to reproduce the same setup.
Couldn’t use xset to manually set some monitors to standby So I searched how to change it back to X.
Also you couldn’t set display variable to another computer’s ip address (a windows one running xming)
XMonad
For me is the lack of virtual displays is Wayland.
I’m using a 49" monitor (with i3) and split it into virtual monitors/displays. For some tasks two displays are good, for others three, and all doesn’t need to be the same size.
The reason for not using i3 splits is that many programs have fullscreen functions that I often use.
Watching a movie is one example, where I have a script that automatically calculate the optimal width without borders and gives me an extra virtual display beside with whatever’s left.
Hyprland can tell a window to be in fullscreen when in fact, it’s not (it’s called… Fakefullscreen). I binded it to shift+f11 and its become part of my workflow, lol
Uhhh, I’ve been dreaming if this and now I’ve got it!
I just need steam\proton\wine to support native wayland and then I’ll remove xwayland from my system, can’t wait
i’m on hyprland though
I used to have issues with middle click scroll, but my own solution works fine and it works on Wayland and X11 too
I’m using Wayland right now, but tentatively.
Right now there’s an issue in WoW where sometimes when I move my mouse and left-click, the camera jumps to a different position, usually trying to look up.
Only happens on Wayland and it’s fixed temporarily by switching between windowed and fullscreen mode. The problem comes back sometimes when alt-tabbing and refocusing the game.
There was a bug in KDE recently where some menus weren’t properly appearing on Wayland, but that seems to have been fixed after my latest update.
Tentatively? X11 is dead.
You could not be more wrong. It is well alive and still kicking.
Mostly Beamng (ik not software but game using windows Vulkan/native Linux and a note that my de doesnt have good wayland support at this time )
To me it’s mostly the lack of feature parity in kwin between x11 and Wayland, specially lack of global menu support for GTK apps in Wayland.
Ubuntu 24.04s KDE Package. Have I borked something or when will it ask me about upgrading?
x11
i am not gonna go with any of the idiotchanges. lost me at systemd, flatpaks and so on
moronic people like lennard poettering and everyone at red hat are a desease.
i will start downgrading Iinux PCs to Windows10 just to not have any of the broken linux promises.
do ONE thing but do it right.
Oké grandpa, its time to take your meds
RHEL10 is probably a month away from being the first distro to ship without even the option of using Xorg. It is not even going to be in the repos.
Other distros will follow their lead.
If you are a fan of x11, not liking Red Hat makes sense.
Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.
Yeah, I think my sway config is around five years old now. The Wayland experience hasn’t been entirely without warts, but as someone who kind of just uses the desktop to drive a browser and a bunch of terminals, there’s not a whole lot of problems to run into either.