AwesomeWM, and xdotool.
That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course
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There's ydotool.
I find it's not as reliable in targeting inputs, and you sometimes need to set the XDG_RUNTIME variable yourself. wtype is much better at this, but is limited to keystrokes
You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:
Appreciate the link, and I don't mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly river is. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.
Edit: Oh, it's a tiling window manager, and all WMs in wayland have to be compositors.
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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.
I think Rustdesk for me as well. My main computer is a Windows laptop, but I use a few Linux laptops around the house to control it and others with Rustdesk. Alt+Tab works on the remote system in Gnome Classic (I think that's what it's called - says X11) but on the other options it performs switches locally only. Tested on Debian and Fedora.
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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.
I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.
Xfwm. Taskbars are now wayland, but don't autohide without the compositor supporting it.
XFCE, mostly.
Easystroke https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke, please, please, please somebody pick the project, I'll gladly pay a license to use it.
https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions
It's recommended by the easystroke dev too: https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki
I tried Mouse Actions many times, just a different beast (many Easystroke users have the same opinion).
GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland
Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.
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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.
ydotool iirc
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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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.
Balders Gate 3. Cannot get it to work on Wayland. No issues on X11.
I run basically all my games in gamescope, plus I get HDR for those games that support it.
I wasn't able to get gamescope working while I was using an nvidia card, and haven't tried yet with amd
Works for me in Wayland on Bazzite. Maybe depends on your distro and GPU drivers.
Same for me on Arch (btw)