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So, I guess no one has any idea how to fix Wayland vs. Chromium?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

Chromium apps scaling wrong in Wayland / Kubuntu 25.10
I just installed Kubuntu 25.10 for the first time, on a fresh laptop install. 25.10 defaults to Wayland now. Now, Chromium-based apps (Chrome, Signal, and Slack so far) are showing mis-scaled; th...

Xfwl4: Xfce soll eigenen Wayland-Compositor bekommen
Das Xfce-Team will eingesammelte Spendengelder in die Entwicklung des Wayland-Compositors xfwl4 stecken.
https://www.heise.de/news/Xfwl4…

After patching and rebuilding kwin_wayland to remove the bullshit-ass fucking hardcoded gestures that have been in there since at least 2021 with an open bug, funding spent, and no resolution in sight, and thereafter installing both fusuma and fusuma-plugin-sendkey, I have sucessfully gotten KDE on Wayland to behave normally qua gestures. I think.
XScreenSaver 6.11 has preliminary (non-locking) Wayland support, which may obviate my dirty hack to watch input devices DBus and run demo…

KDE-Desktop sagt X11-Modus adé und setzt vollständig auf Wayland
Anfang 2027 und damit etwas mehr als ein Jahr nach Gnome will auch KDE den Support für X11 entfernen und fortan vollends auf Wayland setzen.

Uh. Is this a known #ubuntu thing? Or is this a quirk of #Wayland?
Sometimes when I bring a window from the background it stays like this, text and icons all garbled. Sometimes if I resize or jiggle it, it sorts itself out, sometimes I have to kill it.

KDE Plasma with Wayland on FreeBSD in Oracle VirtualBox
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p8gytd/kde_plasma_with_wayland_on_freebsd_in_oracle/
I get SDDM, but not the Wayland option.

Interesting to see that OpenSuse Leap 16 has an XFCE Wayland session option during install. It uses labwc, so there you have it. No more X11 in OpenSuse Leap. Afaic see it's working just fine ootb.Nice.
#opensuse

I fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…

from my link log —
Exploring the fragmentation of Wayland: an xdotool adventure.
https://www.semicomplete.com/blog/xdotool-and-exploring-wayland-fragmentation/
saved 2025-11-21

I'm running into a really annoying render bug with the latest Kubuntu, which now uses Wayland. Anyone else seen this issue, and know how to fix it?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

Chromium apps scaling wrong in Wayland / Kubuntu 25.10
I just installed Kubuntu 25.10 for the first time, on a fresh laptop install. 25.10 defaults to Wayland now. Now, Chromium-based apps (Chrome, Signal, and Slack so far) are showing mis-scaled; th...

Anyone else having issues with KeepassXC and Fedora 43? Im guessing its something with Wayland/Qt as I can see this error "qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()" Waiting 1-3 minutes for it to open is getting real annoying though. Usability is near nil.

Oh, even VR works on Wayland now!

I've rebuilt kwin_wayland three times now, making more drastic cuts each time, and I still haven't managed to evict the gestures. What am I missing? The patch applies fine manually. Am I misunderstanding how to declare the patch in the spec file? Do I need to declare it as a Patch rather than a Source? Am I not supposed to provide the .patch file extension? Some previously-unconsidered fourth thing?
It's half past midnight. I guess I'll knock off and read this again to…

@… 👆
For Plasma (Wayland) on FreeBSD to work in VirtualBox, is sysfb a missing piece of the jigsaw?
<https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/389

I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MADE KWIN_WAYLAND'S FUCKING HARDCODED GESTURES BULLSHIT EAT AN ENTIRE BAG OF DICKS AND TOSS ITSELF OUT THE NEAREST AIRLOCK \o/ \o/ \o/ 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Blackstone Blvd, Blackstone Park, and Wayland Square just as the snowstorm kicks in!

Oh, Steam games actually launch on wayland now. That’s progress. They seem to look better than on X11 too, maybe due to HDR?
Can Steam Link please work now tho?

We've all seen wobbly windows on Linux. I think it's time for an upgrade: We need to make real-time cloth simulation windows a thing!
#Linux #Wayland

here's an idea for the #RIIR crowd: #X11, for those use-cases where #wayland fails utterly. more useful than rewriting cat and ls in rust...

Ha someone asked a question about the steam frame: what is the situation with desktop mode? Are we getting a KDE VR desktop experience? I know it's a lot of work but Wayland is kind of VR ready and the opportunities seems so cool....
#steamframe #KDE

If there is XML, there should also be WML (for Wayland).

Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.
[…]
And there are even more challenge…

hmmmm okay I tried to install KDE on ubuntu.... but I did it on X11 instead of wayland?? when I switch to wayland on the login screen and login it's not KDE though.. and trying to reinstall it doesn't do much.
also KDE is super laggy and runs badly.
#ubuntu

Ok, Gnome removed the X11 backend and only supports Wayland. I'd be fine with that when they finally had separated the window manager from the full session. It's just annoying¹ to get logged out because the window manager crashes again – and that happens way to often!
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¹to use a mild term
#gnome

And BigPicture mode isn’t laggy at all on Wayland! It’s extremely laggy in X11.

@… Wayland?

Maybe it is time for me to go back to debian stable or some such. #Opensuse is pushing half baked solutions, which makes me sad after all those years of reliable services. On top, I don't understand this obsession for Wayland (which isn't up to speed on Desktop).

Very low-key "BTW". But it's an all-Linux build and I am happy 🙂 Clair Obscur runs like cr@p on this GPU, in case you didn't know 😑 😭

I'm surprised to see there is no #flatpak for vk-hdr-layer, which is still required to get Vulkan HDR Extensions on #Nvidia on #Wayland. It's my understanding you can't access

No need to be left behind.
The adjusted how-to is up and running at https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland.
So, go and get your latest KDE Plasma 6.5.2.Wayland on FreeBSD!

Does screensharing even work on wlroots these days or are they still salty about implementing the wayland protocol properly just because it would benefit some nvidia users?

It seems that Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, but I'm too lazy to set up a WM from scratch again and understand how it works. Besides, everything is going so well for me with xorg & i3wm...
I think I'll stick with it until I have no other choice.
#linux

Linux utility for binding keyboard/mouse/touchpad actions to system actions (which reportedly has the ability to override and disable the touchpad gestures that are literally compiled into KDE Plasma-Wayland for some unfathomable fucking reason)
https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions

Told y'all before: FreeBSD has the most exciting and full-fledged stack of Wayland compositors and applications.
Most exciting part of Mangowc: switching between tiling and scrolling with one keybind. And a ton more, to be discovered by yours truly. Enjoying it a lot so far.
#freebsd #mangowc

Been really enjoying this terminal called foot.
#linux

I switched back to Wayland yesterday for funsies, and MAN I forgot how good HDR looks :3 can't wait to see how Baldur's Gate runs.

Either KDE fixes the problems with their Wayland session (faulty font rendering with fractional scaling, no ability to remap touchpad gestures that are literally baked in at compile time, and so on) or I'll be shopping for a new desktop environment once they drop X11 in 2027. I'll not be railroaded into accepting a dogshit user experience because somebody wants to dunk on the chuds. Plasma isn't that special!

Anyone daily driving XLibre on FreeBSD in 2026?
/u/BigSneakyDuck asks – <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qgcihy/x11libre_x11xlibre_on_freebsd_first_impressions/>:
＂I intend to run a poll on Wayland vs X11 f…

Noticed only today, since moving my #Emacs environment over to the new laptop last November, all my #OrgRoam 'dailies' are not orgroam files, they are basic #OrgMode files 🥹 C-c n d d does resolve to the right org-roam command, but these files contain only a # title and nothing else.
It was likely naive of me to expect my .emacs to be relocatable.
I don't suppose there's a function to mass-convert org-files to org-roam? Well, that's what keystroke macros are for, I suppose!
On a positive note, my #Firefox kiosk issue was solved by MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 which is odd since I'm running Wayland and it had worked fine since September until I added and then removed /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json

Updated the codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-mangowc repo. Still a lot to do, but at least the most relevant things are there, including the mango configs itself 😆 Also the sw selection has been amended, including yazi and foot now.
cc @…
#freebsd

@… thank you!
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland/pulls/1 includes suggested changes. (Avoidance of SDDM should be…

Mmmm, Nix has MangoWC in the packages repo as well
How about Panoramix-Saigon, an immutable, auto-updating NixOS with a Wayland window-manager ?
Now that's something...

FreeBSD: state of Wayland on NVIDIA
@… do you know, is <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1oyz96y/comment/np7zsr7/>…

With all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux

Noticed only today, since moving my #Emacs environment over to the new laptop last November, all my #OrgRoam 'dailies' are not orgroam files, they are basic #OrgMode files 🥹 C-c n d d does resolve to the right org-roam command, but these files contain only a # title and nothing else.
It was likely naive of me to expect my .emacs to be relocatable.
I don't suppose there's a function to mass-convert org-files to org-roam? Well, that's what keystroke macros are for, I suppose!
On a positive note, my #Firefox kiosk issue was solved by MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 which is odd since I'm running Wayland and it had worked fine since September until I added and then removed /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json

That updating went totally transparant and without a hitch, from beta5:
# freebsd-version -kru
15.0-RC2
15.0-RC1
15.0-RC2
Already going to RC2. And still running KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland. Kudos!
#freebsd

@… below, is the apparent mismatch between 580.95.x and 580.105.x likely to cause an actual problem?
Or does it simply _look_ a little strange?
Thanks
New packages to be INSTALLED:
drm-66-kmod: 6.6.25.1500068_8 [FreeBSD-ports-kmods]
egl-wayland: 1.1.20 [FreeBSD-ports]
nvidia-driver: 580.95.05 [FreeBSD-port…

No one told you it is effing annoying that Xorg, by itself, just blanks your screen, even when you're watching a video. Never happens on Wayland, X-bro's!
PS: and don't bother me with your xset dpms stuff. Been there, done that, it helps, but it's ridiculous.

Giving #Niri (a Wayland compositor) a try. Don't let anyone tell you I'm not down with the cool kids. #Linux

@… on Linux as well as BSD? Which version of Firefox?
I'll not use the feature with my main profile – I pile things other than traditional menus into the traditional menu bar, but I'm curious …
(Here: Kubuntu 25.10, Wayland, Firefox 145.0.2 (64-bit).)

There was this mention in the Budgie 10.10 release announcement of ending an era and working together in a very positive way with the KDE team.
What most people, including yours truly, missed was the mention of QT6 as the new development platform of choice for Budgie 11! Part of Frameworks is already in 10.10, and a totally new architecture will be build for Wayland, QT and Budgie. Exciting times!

Love it when a plan comes together.
KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland on FreeBSD 15 beta 5. My how-to will be updated tomorrow (some minor tweaks), but this is running solid on that laptop.
Thanks to @… for useful additions!
#freebsd

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if X11 itself suddenly announced that it was going to stop being a display server and would be going back to school to become a Wayland compositor

I obviously had a great short break. Totally forgot my revitalized setup of the River wm on FreeBSD, finished the night before departure 😆 . Cleaned up applications for Wayland. My educated guess is that Tumbleweed will be moved off the laptop (I mean who needs AI?) in favor of FreeBSD KDE pretty soon...
Configs at: (https://

I think I started off on the wrong foot here, on my Qtile Wayland FreeBSD adventure 🤣
Getting that dd command from history, changing the iso to the FreeBSD one, and zapping it onto /dev/sda indeed did correctly overwrite my 2TB external disk. Not the contents of /dev/sdb, the USB stick where it should land.
That's what you get for inserting extra disks 🥳 🤓 😂