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.
You must log in or register to comment.
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It’s hard to reproduce the same setup.
I’m using Wayland right now, but tentatively.
Right now there’s an issue in WoW where sometimes when I move my mouse and left-click, the camera jumps to a different position, usually trying to look up.
Only happens on Wayland and it’s fixed temporarily by switching between windowed and fullscreen mode. The problem comes back sometimes when alt-tabbing and refocusing the game.
There was a bug in KDE recently where some menus weren’t properly appearing on Wayland, but that seems to have been fixed after my latest update.
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.
wtypeis much better at this, but is limited to keystrokes
You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:
Appreciate the link, and I don’t mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly
riveris. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.Edit: Oh, it’s a tiling window manager, and all WMs in wayland have to be compositors.
what do you use x-eyes for?
👀
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html
Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.
XFCE, mostly.
GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland
Depends on your desktop environment. Works on KDE.
This one should be getting resolved soon! With the new global shortcut portal
Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.
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.
Check out xremap https://github.com/xremap/xremap
ydotool iirc
Glxgears. :P I’m on wayland for a least 4 years
Hilarious. Is vkgears a possible replacement in your workflow?
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!
x11
i am not gonna go with any of the idiotchanges. lost me at systemd, flatpaks and so on
moronic people like lennard poettering and everyone at red hat are a desease.
i will start downgrading Iinux PCs to Windows10 just to not have any of the broken linux promises.
do ONE thing but do it right.
Oké grandpa, its time to take your meds
RHEL10 is probably a month away from being the first distro to ship without even the option of using Xorg. It is not even going to be in the repos.
Other distros will follow their lead.
If you are a fan of x11, not liking Red Hat makes sense.
Gnome. No shell restart on wayland, and not planned.
Pardon?
GNOME defaults to Wayland. GNOME 49 is going to remove X11 support all together.
Only new version default wayland, my version not. And not update. Until shell restart on wayland, not use wayland.
I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.
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=x11environment variable to be set before they’ll function.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.
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.
