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2024-12-31-wayland-gotchas

by alex
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Updated: 2024-10-21

So the day of wayland is coming. As of today the gotchas I have are:

  • vnc on the desktop
    • wayvnc (required wlroots)
  • global hotkeys → macro recoding
    • need to be implemented in compositor
  • tiling shortcuts
    • need to be implemented in compositor
  • screensaver
    • swaylock
  • keyboard indicator
  • screen grabber
    • need to be implemented in compositor (hotkeys) and using tools like grim or slurp
  • xrandr monitor equivalent
    • kanshi
    • wlr-randr
  • wmctl replacement
    • wlrctrl
  • barrier/inputleap replacement

See: https://github.com/solarkraft/awesome-wlroots

Compositors

  • hikari : Interesting, but not easily discoverable
  • labwc : OpenBox like. Recommended by LXQt project.

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