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Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland
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this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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The Dash to Plank dev doesn't want to support Wayland. You could use Dash to Panel or dash to dock instead, they've been the community favourites for years now.
Or of course you could use the standard Gnome workflow.
I've never heard of either of these things and I've been in the community for decades, cheers. I only use Plank itself, not dash-to-x anything. I've no idea what that even means tbh as I'm an i3 user usually so I've been out of the GNOME game for a bit.
if you're coming from i3, you may want to check out Sway instead.
What's Sway? Another twm?
it's a drop-in replacement for i3 on wayland
Wayland doesn't even support i3? Jesus
i3 doesn't support Wayland, not the other way around. It's an X11 window manager. Not sure why you would expect it to work on Wayland.
Oh I just thought if this change to Wayland is being pushed so hard by peeps here then that would mean at least the basics work on it haha, well that makes sense.
Don't really know what the technical differences are as I'm not a Linux expert by any means especially not when it comes to the relationship between the kernel and the display server, (Def gonna try to learn more with LFS soon tho!) or why Wayland hasn't added support for window managers yet.
Gonna have to stick with Xorg until the Wayland folks make Xorg software compatible