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submitted 2 days ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Ubuntu 24.04s KDE Package. Have I borked something or when will it ask me about upgrading?

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Session restore

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago

XFCE, mostly.

[-] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago

I think Rustdesk for me as well. My main computer is a Windows laptop, but I use a few Linux laptops around the house to control it and others with Rustdesk. Alt+Tab works on the remote system in Gnome Classic (I think that's what it's called - says X11) but on the other options it performs switches locally only. Tested on Debian and Fedora.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Xfwm. Taskbars are now wayland, but don't autohide without the compositor supporting it.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago
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[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.

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[-] gamma@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

ydotool iirc

[-] VITecNet@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Easystroke https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke, please, please, please somebody pick the project, I'll gladly pay a license to use it.

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[-] VITecNet@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I tried Mouse Actions many times, just a different beast (many Easystroke users have the same opinion).

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago
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[-] SigHunter@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 days ago

Glxgears. :P I'm on wayland for a least 4 years

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Gnome. No shell restart on wayland, and not planned.

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[-] Termight@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago
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[-] nevm@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Balders Gate 3. Cannot get it to work on Wayland. No issues on X11.

[-] exu@feditown.com 5 points 2 days ago

I run basically all my games in gamescope, plus I get HDR for those games that support it.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

I wasn't able to get gamescope working while I was using an nvidia card, and haven't tried yet with amd

Works for me in Wayland on Bazzite. Maybe depends on your distro and GPU drivers.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Same for me on Arch (btw)

[-] mark@social.cool110.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

@arsCynic Nvidia drivers, prime offload with Wayland is still a no go.

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