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Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey y'all

So I've been a big anti-Wayland shill around here but decided to finally give it a shot, I installed Debian 12 with GNOME, and can't seem to get Plank working.

Without the Plank dock, GNOME is unusable, and KDE refuses to autostart Guake (does not save the setting in autostart), and when it works it seems broken (stuck to the left side of the screen).

These are fundamental apps to me for any decent Linux laptop use. What gives? Is there an alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You could try Yakuake instead of Guake in KDE?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Sure! Is it missing any features from Guake, or is it just some clone fork?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Yakuake is the OG?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, technically the OG would be Quake, but Yakuake did come before Guake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah fair point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm afraid that I've never used either Guake or Yakuake so I don't know either of their feature sets 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Neither is a fork of the other, but Yakuake came first. I assume it has more features, since that's how it usually goes with KDE apps vs GNOME apps. Haven't tried Guake, tho.