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What's everyone's Wayland showstopper?
I'm holding out for better autoclickers/macro recorders before I go to Wayland
Nvidia
Better Wine support. It's coming soon, but I prefer xorg until Wine properly supports Wayland.
is XWayland not good enough for that?
I would say Xwayland is good ENOUGH, but it's not great, my clipboard with xwayland is awful on sway, for example. It works, but not the best.
ah, on Gnome it's relatively seamless
I recently stopped switching to x11 for gaming. With most games, the performance is 5-10fps better on Wayland
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Honestly, Wayland just doesn't give the impression of working well enough with everything to replace my window manager and all kinds of utilities that grew around it (or X11 in general) for a decade or two just to only notice after using it for a few weeks that it won't work with some things. It demands a huge time investment up front for questionable gain basically.
As a multimonitor user with mixed properties, and an AMD user, Wayland has been nothing but a massive gain for me and continues to get better in equally massive strides on KDE (been using kwin-wayland for almost a full year as a daily driver now). It even improved the user experience on my surface pro that I'm running the surface-linux kernel on.
The time-investment is short-term pain, long-term profit. That's kinda our thing as Linux guys
But where it the long-term profit? Every time Wayland comes up in the last 15 or so years since it was first mentioned somewhere it is an endless list of comments about things that don't work and "will work soon" (TM). Meanwhile in all that time there hasn't been a single exploit for the security issues Wayland claims to fix. X11 has worked just fine for all this time.
I am not opposed to replacing things in general (e.g. I do like systemd and never want init scripts back) but Wayland just seems like a bad design with bad goals and bad implementations.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Vulnerabilities-Since-1988
Mine's mostly just bad electron app support for native Wayland. In theory Electron now offers full Wayland support but hooooo boy is it going to be a while until all of the electron garbage I use finally updates to a new enough version for proper support.
The other gotcha is just general client side decorations support for apps in general. I'm shocked that no one has built a small libadwaita wrapper library that implements client side decorations for apps. It's going to be ages until app developers all implement their own (crummy) CSD that doesn't match system themes at all.
You can still use XWayland though, it's not going anywhere. They are only removing the ability to run a X11-only session.
Yeah, fair - they're not so much showstoppers as persistent irritations.
There's this
I play Heroes of the Storm through Lutris.
I have a superultrawide 32:9 monitor.
In X11, I can get HotS to scale past its normal limits just like I could in windows and take up a full 5120x1440 resolution.
In Wayland, I can't.
I will die on this hill.
thy gamescope(that run on steam deck) i think it can scale, if yes, so it's an implementation issue, that need to be fixed by the compositor
Color management
This is probably the blocker for me, too. There are some other things but this one just feels amateur.
Autotype for password managers. I don't only have passwords which I use in my browser for which the plugin is fine. But other apps require autotype. And copy & paste can't be the solution for this missing feature.
For me personally, none. Until around 2 years ago, it was Nvidia, for Kwin usage on desktop, but before that, I was happily using Wayland sessions and WMs on my laptops for some years
Wayland is my daily driver. The only thing that annoys me is that screen-sharing on Signal Desktop doesn't work. But that is rather the fault of Signal, making the stupid decision of supporting a deprecated Ubuntu version instead of supporting Wayland fully
I use my laptop for work presentations and running a presentation with embedded videos doesn't work on external displays.
SteamVR doesn't work on GNOME Wayland because it's missing DRM (the thing that's needed to use the display of the VR headset)
Probably never gonna happen, given how Wayland is designed.
It's never going to happen on Wayland level. It's absolutely no problem to implement this on a compositor level.
or even lower level, they don't want people running keyloggers without admin permissions
I found no Remote Desktop solution to be working well together with wayland. (I’m not quite sure, if wayland was the cause of the issues I had with RDP and VNC, have to test that). The proprietary Remote Desktop all show a warning that wayland is not supported. While TeamViewer does kinda work, despite the warning, it is not a very sable connection.
ironically this is what x11 was originally built for.
I've tried this out, and its promising (KDE Plasma RDP Server). https://planet.kde.org/arjen-hiemstra-2023-08-08-remote-desktop-using-the-rdp-protocol-for-plasma-wayland/
Nice 😃 i currently am a GNOME user (love the animations) but if GNOME on Xorg is no option anymore and GNOME on Wayland still does not work for me, I may have to switch to Plasma on Wayland and use this Thank you very much😇
I don't know if this would work for whatever your remote desktop needs are specifically, but I use Sunshine and it works really well.
For whatever reason it can't seem to suspend my thinkpad. Everything crashes and when I open the lid I have to log in again :/
Is that a Wayland issue? Lots of modern laptops have suspend issues (broken S0ix sleep, missing S3, bios declaring wrong states, etc)
Lack of window manager and CSD just seems like a downgrade compared to X11, and I have yet to see anything that would be an upgrade that I care about.
Virtual keyboard support
idk what desktop you're using but GNOME has that built in and it works on Wayland
here's a few: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard
https://maliit.github.io/
https://github.com/proycon/svkbd
i tried rhis autoclicker https://github.com/konkitoman/autoclicker and worked flawless(just needed ticker the suders file because cargo install on .local/bin), but if someone could suggest a macro recorder i appreciate!