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> Firefox is quite buggy on Wayland Is it? I moved to Sway (a Wayland WM) a few months ago, and run FF exclusively. Hell, I even run Firefox ESR (as provided b
by gspr 6y ago
> Firefox is quite buggy on Wayland
Is it? I moved to Sway (a Wayland WM) a few months ago, and run FF exclusively. Hell, I even run Firefox ESR (as provided by Debian), and I've noticed precisely one bug, and it's tiny: the main FF hamburger menu has a vertical scrollbar even if it's got plenty of vertical space left on the screen. Whatever, I use that menu once in a blue moon. Everything else is perfect!
What are you experiencing?
> you need to set up some environment flags before launching it
A single flag! Come on, this is hardly a problem.
> and there's a trove of bugs still open for it.
There's a trove of bugs open for FF in general ;-)
> Like cut and paste between different kind of applications, which is an horrible user experience tbh.
What do you mean? It works fine for me. From FF to other Wayland windows, from other Wayland windows to FF, and to and from Xwayland windows. The only copy/paste behavioral difference I've noticed on Wayland is that I lose the copied data if I close the source program. So when copying from FF, I can't close FF (as a whole, not talking about the window in question) before I've pasted. I can't see that this is an actual problem.
- ATsch 6y ago> The only copy/paste behavioral difference I've noticed on Wayland is that I lose the copied data if I close the source program. This is because sway by default does not provide a "clipboard manager" component. It has been the case for a long time that the clipboard is only actually populated when you paste, copying merely stores a reference. This is so you can copy/paste multi gigabyte files without running out of memory. A clipboard manager component solves this issue by intelligently saving your clipboard as applications come and go.
- gspr 6y agoGot it! Thanks for clarifying. Honest question: Is this something that people are missing in Wayland?
- ATsch 6y agoI personally found it annoying enough to install clipman[0] for my sway setup. Especially with short lived applications like calculators etc. [0] https://github.com/yory8/clipman https://github.com/yory8/clipman