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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] 43 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

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

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

what do you use x-eyes for?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

👀

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html

Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think that was entirely serious...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:

https://codeberg.org/river/wiki

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

XFCE, mostly.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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] 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This one should be getting resolved soon! With the new global shortcut portal

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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] 4 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't have that variable set on my environment, but perhaps it's due to my running PCSX2 as an AppImage?

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

keepassxc's autotype

also, nvidia

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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] 3 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Session restore

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