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Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 day ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] gradual@lemmings.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours 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)

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours 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 )

[–] WatTyler@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

XMonad

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 15 hours ago

I used to have issues with middle click scroll, but my own solution works fine and it works on Wayland and X11 too

[–] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 2 points 16 hours 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.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours 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

[–] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] WallyHackenslacker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 15 hours 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.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] andreax@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours 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...

[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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), amd libreoffice Writer) work fine.

[–] bunitor 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

keepassxc's autotype

also, nvidia

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There are still some quirks but it's been generally fine for me with Nvidia, almost a year now.

[–] bunitor 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

i heard about that. sadly my gpu is so old the latest driver that supports it is the 470 driver

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you can hold onto that GPU for a little longer with X11. But it seems you'll need an upgrade some time later. Though if you don't game (aside from FOSS ones), Nouveau driver should do the job for your daily needs. However, it still needs time for Wayland.

[–] bunitor 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

the nouveau driver works fine except when it crashes for no clear reason after some hours of usage

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Even on X11? I tried it on Wayland months ago to see its state and it was generally fine except gaming. Though the results still might depend on the card in use I guess.

[–] bunitor 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Even on X11?

yup. i think it had something to do with video calls or screen sharing, which are essential at work

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

That makes sense. Nouveau isn't mature for some use cases yet, even though they made a huge jump with NVK. Hardware upgrade might be closer than you think then.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm in the same boat. Gigabyte GTX 670. Wayland was a sluggish mess, and same goes for nouveau with X11.

I bit the bullet after eight months of running Arch like this, and experimenting around with newer iGPUs in laptops, and bought a new radeon finally. Time to retire this ancient piece of tech.

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 1 points 3 hours ago

670 is still better than nothing.

Hopefully it can find its way to someone else's home on the cheap and still give them plenty of years of fun.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

Session restore

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

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

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?

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