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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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.
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
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.
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It's hard to reproduce the same setup.
Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.
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
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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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.
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!
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? 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.
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XFCE, mostly.
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 )
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