Curious from people who follow its development closely.
- What protocol are about to be finally implemented?
- Which ones are still a struggle?
- How many serious protocols are there missing?
I can't run xscreensaver in wayland :(
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I use an accessibility tool called Talon Voice. It is x.org only. Will the shift to Wayland kill these tools, or is it a case of the developer needing to rewrite for wayland?
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I don't follow this stuff at all, so I have no idea what the advantages are of Wayland that I'd actually see and benefit from in my daily use. That being said, I saw everyone saying it's better, so I tried switching to it. After rebooting, my PC just showed a black screen. I needed to use a TTY to revert back to xorg. So no, as of right now I'm not using Wayland.
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A little out of date. But still the best source I know of 👍
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Some way of globally capturing hotkeys, for things like starting stream, media hotkeys, etc. Only passing key events to the foreground window is shortsighted, but we need a secure way of doing this.
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I'd love to find an alternative to xdotool's auto type feature (or ClickPaste from Windows).
There is wtype but unfortunately it doesn't work in KDE nor GNOME because neither of them support the right protocol. I've run into the " hasn't implemented $PROTOCOL" a few times in the past and it's certainly a bit annoying.
Aside from when that comes up, I don't really have any complaints. A tool we used for work was never going to be fully functional on Wayland because of its dependence on Xinerama (I think) but thankfully we've moved away from it.
I like ydotool, uses a systemd user service, but fulfills my needs of KB shortcuts to paste text into vnc sessions
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That site's great.
The main thing I wish for is for ffmpeg to start supporting the wlroots screengrabbing api.
I use Hyprland daily and it works great. The only issue I have is that PhpStorm has some minor issues. Being a Java app, it runs via XWayland. It mostly works, but sometimes menus and popups get confused and won't stay open.
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I miss being able to just use one mouse and keyboard for everything
Wake me up when there's a working, native non-wsl waypipe client with sound for windows and android, that can hand off applications seamlessly to other hosts. (Think two computers, two monitors that feel like one).
Also working screensaver and monitor power options