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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 expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, 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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Must have been a long time since you built a box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It's hard to reproduce the same setup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

New hyprland patch can do pretty much all the xdotool stuff since they added a send key to window thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

XFCE, mostly.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Matty_r 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What about Deskflow? Worked pretty well for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'll check it out, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Does input-leap do what you need? I control my testing mac at work with input-leap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Uhhh, I've been dreaming if this and now I've got it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

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