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submitted 1 week 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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I just need steam\proton\wine to support native wayland and then I'll remove xwayland from my system, can't wait

i'm on hyprland though

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 week ago

Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AwesomeWM, and xdotool.

That's it. Oh and x-eyes of course

New hyprland patch can do pretty much all the xdotool stuff since they added a send key to window thing

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I find it's not as reliable in targeting inputs, and you sometimes need to set the XDG_RUNTIME variable yourself. wtype is much better at this, but is limited to keystrokes

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

what do you use x-eyes for?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

👀

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html

Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I don't think that was entirely serious...

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[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago

XFCE, mostly.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 1 week 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.

[-] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week 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.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

What about Deskflow? Worked pretty well for me.

[-] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Nice! DeskFlow seems like exactly what I was looking for as my Barrier replacement. I have an annoyance with Wayland where it won't remember my preference to allow mouse/kb sharing, but more importantly IT WORKS, and better yet it's an active project still. THANK YOU!

[-] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

I'll check it out, thanks!

[-] 1smoothcriminal@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I use rustdesk with wayland, works for me for everything i need it to. As for barriers, i believe input-leap works with wayland.

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[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

This one should be getting resolved soon! With the new global shortcut portal

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago
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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week 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.

[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.

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

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

[-] gamma@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago
[-] gamma@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Same camp as wtype, you have to bind something to exec it.

[-] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Uhhh, I've been dreaming if this and now I've got it!

[-] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

keepassxc's autotype

also, nvidia

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

KeepassXC work fine on Wayland with xwayland

[-] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 6 days ago

only with other x11 applications

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

There are still some quirks but it's been generally fine for me with Nvidia, almost a year now.

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[-] SigHunter@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 week ago

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

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

urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It's hard to reproduce the same setup.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago
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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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