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.
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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
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It's hard to reproduce the same setup.
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.
Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.
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.
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)
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 )
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!
AwesomeWM, and xdotool.
That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course
New hyprland patch can do pretty much all the xdotool stuff since they added a send key to window thing
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RustDesk (remote desktop control) and Barriers (KVM-like server to control my laptop screen from my desktop just by moving mouse to that screen). Both of these are tightly integrated in my daily workflow and would be a hard loss.
There's a modern fork of Barriers but I haven't been able to get it working cross-platform yet. I know RustDesk is actively working to complete wayland support, but it's not quite there yet.
Does input-leap do what you need from Barriers? I control my testing mac at work with input-leap
I use rustdesk with wayland, works for me for everything i need it to. As for barriers, i believe input-leap works with wayland.
RustDesk on Wayland can't run headless, which I need (unless they fixed already and I just haven't noticed yet - I know they've been working on it!)
Yeah, Input-leap is the Barriers fork I was referring to. I need it to work on all platforms though, and I wasn't able to get it working on macOS. I keep checking periodically tho (usually in response to posts like these - I wanna move Wayland like everyone else!)
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I'm too dumb to set up Wayland on Nvidia and honestly don't really care to. My laptop has an intel haswell-ult so it works with Wayland ootb and all the apps I use on it (literally just calibre, falkon, lapce and libreoffice Writer) work fine.
Edit: spelling
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also, nvidia
KeepassXC work fine on Wayland with xwayland
only with other x11 applications
There are still some quirks but it's been generally fine for me with Nvidia, almost a year now.
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I used to have issues with middle click scroll, but my own solution works fine and it works on Wayland and X11 too
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