Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland?
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.
GitHub - autokey/autokey: AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. - autokey/autokeyGitHub
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makingStuffForFun
in reply to arsCynic • • •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.
tetris11
in reply to arsCynic • • •AwesomeWM, and xdotool.
That's it. Oh and Xeyes of course
Übercomplicated
in reply to tetris11 • • •You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:
codeberg.org/river/wiki
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Codeberg.orgtetris11
in reply to Übercomplicated • • •Appreciate the link, and I don't mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly
riveris. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.Edit: Oh, it's a tiling window manager, and all WM in wayland have to be compositors.
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in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •wtypeis much better at this, but is limited to keystrokesReversalHatchery
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x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man…
XEYES(1) manual page
www.x.orgEphera
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in reply to arsCynic • • •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.
stravanasu
in reply to Gamma • • •github.com/xremap/xremap
GitHub - xremap/xremap: Key remapper for X11 and Wayland
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in reply to arsCynic • • •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.
1smoothcriminal
in reply to DetachablePianist • • •DetachablePianist
in reply to 1smoothcriminal • • •RustDesk on Wayland can't run headless, which I need (unless they fixed already and I just haven't noticed yet - I know they've been working on it!)
Yeah, Input-leap is the Barriers fork I was referring to. I need it to work on all platforms though, and I wasn't able to get it working on macOS. I keep checking periodically tho (usually in response to posts like these - I wanna move Wayland like everyone else!)
Termight
in reply to arsCynic • • •GDK_BACKEND=x11environment variable to be set before they'll function.Frosty
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in reply to Frosty • • •True. AppImages are often convenient because they run w/o requiring any env settings.
ReversalHatchery
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in reply to arsCynic • • •GitHub - thjaeger/easystroke: X11 gesture recognition application
GitHubashaman2007
in reply to VITecNet • • •github.com/jersou/mouse-action…
It's recommended by the easystroke dev too: github.com/thjaeger/easystroke…
GitHub - jersou/mouse-actions: mouse-actions execute some command from mouse events such as clicks/wheel on the side/corners of the screen, or drawing shapes. It's a mix between Easystroke and Compiz edge commands.
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also, nvidia
muhyb
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in reply to beleza pura • • •Hey, I'm in the same boat. Gigabyte GTX 670. Wayland was a sluggish mess, and same goes for nouveau with X11.
I bit the bullet after eight months of running Arch like this, and experimenting around with newer iGPUs in laptops, and bought a new radeon finally. Time to retire this ancient piece of tech.
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in reply to muhyb • • •yup. i think it had something to do with video calls or screen sharing, which are essential at work
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i am not gonna go with any of the idiotchanges. lost me at systemd, flatpaks and so on
moronic people like lennard poettering and everyone at red hat are a desease.
i will start downgrading Iinux PCs to Windows10 just to not have any of the broken linux promises.
do ONE thing but do it right.
kylian0087
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in reply to arsCynic • • •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
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in reply to arsCynic • • •I would really like to see xtrlock find its way into the Wayland session!
But at the moment, it's only available for wlroots based compositors...
wlroots / wlroots · GitLab
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in reply to arsCynic • • •Couldn't use xset to manually set some monitors to standby
So I searched how to change it back to X.
Also you couldn't set display variable to another computer's ip address (a windows one running xming)