TRIUMPH! The LAST and FINAL thing holding me back from completely moving to #Wayland was replacing #AutoKey for text expansion.

#espanso appears to replace all the functionality (at least that I use, although the scripting is not via Python). Happy!

NOTE! DEBIAN USERS! If you follow the instructions on the installation page, you get an old release that has dependency issues. Download the LATEST RELEASE 2.2.3 of the Wayland .deb

https://github.com/espanso/espanso/releases/tag/v2.2.3

and then follow the installation instructions:

https://espanso.org/docs/install/linux/#deb-wayland

Wayback 0.1 released

Wayback, the recently announced tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, has just announced its first release, version 0.1. As the version number implies, there be dragons here, but the developers state some of them already use Wayback on a day-to-day basis. Still, there's no multi-monitor support yet, quite a few X.org options are just stubs for now,

https://www.osnews.com/story/142878/wayback-0-1-released/

We Need A Real Wayland Desktop "Standard"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQwudSMPP0

OK... #Wayback is pretty cool.
Even in its early-version state (a few weeks), #bspwm works fine!

I can literally run bspwm in #Wayland with no issues from what I've found so far!

This is the #X11 future I want!

I’m finally able to use Wayland on an ongoing basis

It was the need for Waydroid only working under only Wayland, that forced me to again have another go at Wayland this week on my Manjaro KDE Plasma. Yet again I hit some issues, one or two of which were show-stoppers, but I have finally overcome the ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/im-finally-able-to-use-wayland-on-an-ongoing-basis/

Mwm: an X11 window manager in 20 lines of code

Is KDE too much for you? GNOME tries to do too much? Xfce still a bit too fancy? Do you need something smaller? Even more minimalist? What about a mere 20 lines of code which provide the absolute barest possible minimum of window management functionality?

You need mwm.

This is the smallest, actually usable window manager I know about. Ev

https://www.osnews.com/story/142853/mwm-an-x11-window-manager-in-20-lines-of-code/

New post on my website: The most ridiculous Linux bug I've encountered in ages.

Installing XFCE changed a mouse cursor setting for GNOME that caused the login screen to crash when trying to log into GNOME/Wayland.

https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/wayland-gnome-auth-fail/

I’m sick of fighting just to get even simple automated window geometries to work consistently and sanely with #Wayland.

So I went back to the roots and discovered there is actually an #FVWM3 now!

Perfect geometries. Everything under control. Lightning fast and light. And even sound is way better directly through ALSA.

Funny how it feels amazing for my computer to work for me again, instead of me trying in vain to work with it.

"State of the Shell"
with core Shell & Mutter devs at #GUADEC2025
25 July 10:35 CEST Brescia

Yearly update time! Join Carlos, Florian, Georges, Jonas, Philip & Sebastian for a look at what’s new—and what’s next—in GNOME Shell.

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/contributions/1210/

This is pretty swank :) #wayland support now works great in Manjaro Linux on #wsl2 for #windows11

If nothing else I really dig having solid clipboard support for #neovim in WSL2 :)

After more than a year of work, Wayland 1.24 is available for download
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Wayland-1.24-Released-with-Fixes-and-New-Features?utm_source=mlm
#Wayland #Linux #X11 #ResourceManagement #keyboard #protocols #compositors

Hey #OpenGL and #graphics people, are there any graphics profiling/instrumentation/frame debugger solutions which work with OpenGL on modern non-Windows systems? Something à la #RenderDoc but that works on #Wayland or Apple Silicon Macs. To do frame debugging right now I have to log out of my Wayland session on my #Linux desktop and log in to #X11, which is uber-broken on my mixed DPI fractional scaling multi monitor setup... #programming #graphicsprogramming #macdev

Dachte, nach der Debatte hier, dass #Wayland angeblich soooo supertoll ohne Probleme bei allen Programmen laufen würde, mach ich mal ne fortlaufend aktualisierte Liste von Programmen, die nicht laufen und/oder für die es keine oder nur umständliche Lösung gibt.

1) Omnissa Horizon Client (eine Client-App, um Zugang zur Uni-eigenen VM zu bekommen) - > Programm zeigt an, dass das Serverprotokoll nicht unterstützt wird.
2) Zoom Screensharing weil Electron App
3) Element Screensharing weil Electron App
4) Virtualbox - > wurde gefixed mit dem Austausch hin zu VMWare
....
....
- einige Apps sehen vom Schriftbild her merkwürdig aus, leicht verschwommen, wie als wenn man ne Klarsichtfolie drüber gelegt hätte. - > Fixed, durch die Anzeige-Einstellung, alten X11-Anwendungen (was ja schon wieder ne dumme Fornulierung ist, weil was ist denn z. B. an aktuellem Obsidian alt) die Skalierung durch sich selbst durchführen zu lassen. War vorher auf Skalierung durch das System eingestellt.
- Mikrofon ist nicht statisch einstellbar, verstellt sich dynamisch unter Wayland in den Video-Call Apps, besonders in Zoom.

#Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Released with Stable #Vulkan Backend, #Wayland Improvements, and Many Other Changes https://9to5linux.com/blender-4-5-lts-open-source-3d-graphics-app-makes-the-vulkan-backend-stable

@Blender #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

The Register reports that "software freedom" comes at the cost of eternal politics in FOSS . The recent Xlibre fork exposes deep ideological divides—left & right both battle for the soul of open source. Is freedom ever simple? #FOSS #OpenSource #Linux

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/the_price_of_software_freedom/

#X11 is garbage. #ffs, the security holes are gaping. #Wayland

#KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on #Wayland and Fixes More Bugs https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-3-improves-the-automatic-screen-scale-calculator-on-wayland

@kde #Linux #OpenSource