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I think Wayland is good for more technical users. Going from i3 to sway or bspwm to river feels like essentially nothing has changed. On the other hand, Gnome X

by semilin 9mo ago

I think Wayland is good for more technical users. Going from i3 to sway or bspwm to river feels like essentially nothing has changed. On the other hand, Gnome X11 to Wayland might be a bigger shock. Unfortunately, Wayland inherently can't be like Pipewire, which instantly solved basically 90% of audio issues on Linux through its compatibility with Pulseaudio, while having (in my experience) zero drawbacks. If someone could make the equivalent of Pipewire for X11, that'd be nice. Probably far-fetched though.

aidenn0 9mo ago
It can absolutely be like that. Global keyboard shortcuts not working is a deliberate design choice in Wayland (as is non-foreground apps not having access to the clipboard).
- tigrezno 9mo ago
  Gnome is bringing global shortcuts AFAIK in the next stable version
  - akka47 9mo ago
    Yeah but now everything's platform-specific. We'll have a KDE version, a Gnome version, a wlroots version, ...
  - aidenn0 9mo ago
    I bet dollars-to-donuts it won't work with X11 apps
    - bigyabai 9mo ago
      There's no reason it couldn't.
      - aidenn0 9mo ago
        Yes there is; Xwayland won't support it.
        bigyabai 9mo ago
        So what? Xwayland doesn't support file selectors, but XDG has a portal that handles it fine.
    - jcgl 9mo ago
      I can’t speak to the GNOME side of things, but I’ve been enjoying global shortcuts on KDE Wayland for years now. No issues to report whatsoever.