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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] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] LeFantome 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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

GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland

[–] LeFantome 1 points 3 days ago

Depends on your desktop environment. Works on KDE.

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[–] gamma 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

autokey

I accomplish the same thing with compose sequences, and by binding a keyboard shortcut in my desktop to call a script with wtype. It's not a cross-compositor solution though, as you'd have to manually setup binds in each of them.

I don't see much hope for this one-to-one unfortunately.

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

Talon voice.

Autokey.

Anydesk. (although rustdesk is probably going to replace that)

Talon voice though. I'll need X11 for the rest of my life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Xfwm. Taskbars are now wayland, but don't autohide without the compositor supporting it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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 )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Session restore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

keepassxc's autotype

also, nvidia

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[–] VITecNet 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Easystroke https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke, please, please, please somebody pick the project, I'll gladly pay a license to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] VITecNet 3 points 4 days ago

I tried Mouse Actions many times, just a different beast (many Easystroke users have the same opinion).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Wayland's been my daily driver for a few years now, mostly without incident. However, occasionally certain applications (Ryujinx and pcsx2, predictably) require the GDK_BACKEND=x11 environment variable to be set before they'll function.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I would really like to see xtrlock find its way into the Wayland session!

But at the moment, it's only available for wlroots based compositors...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Ubuntu 24.04s KDE Package. Have I borked something or when will it ask me about upgrading?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

huh? Isn't that the thing that let's me select the DE/Compositor/Server mashup while logging in? It just occured to me that this sounds like circular reasoning, but that's what it looks like it does

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes. It's the only package on my system that still depends on X. Without it, I could remove X entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Glxgears. :P I'm on wayland for a least 4 years

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Balders Gate 3. Cannot get it to work on Wayland. No issues on X11.

[–] AnAmericanPotato 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Works for me in Wayland on Bazzite. Maybe depends on your distro and GPU drivers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Gnome. No shell restart on wayland, and not planned.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

@arsCynic Nvidia drivers, prime offload with Wayland is still a no go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

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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