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Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.
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.
AwesomeWM, and xdotool.
That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course
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
what do you use x-eyes for?
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https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html
Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.
I don't think that was entirely serious...
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XFCE, mostly.
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 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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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.
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.
I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.
GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland
This one should be getting resolved soon! With the new global shortcut portal
Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.
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Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.
Xfwm. Taskbars are now wayland, but don't autohide without the compositor supporting it.
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.
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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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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keepassxc's autotype
also, nvidia
There are still some quirks but it's been generally fine for me with Nvidia, almost a year now.
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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.
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
Uhhh, I've been dreaming if this and now I've got it!
XMonad
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)
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It's hard to reproduce the same setup.
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.
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Works for me in Wayland on Bazzite. Maybe depends on your distro and GPU drivers.
Same for me on Arch (btw)
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