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from my link log —
KiCad and Wayland.
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/
saved 2025-06-17

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-p…

Tried Wayland Plasma 6 on openSUSE on a ThinkPad P14s G5 AMD last night:
-Firefox doesn't render properly
-TrackPoint is nearly unusably twitchy and doesn't respond to speed/acceleration settings
-Input latency makes it difficult to control the mouse pointer accurately
That was enough for me to log out and return to an X session. Once they finish deleting X11 from all distros and removing any X support from modern DEs, I guess I'll just get a Mac. We had a …

#GNOME 48 with #Debian13 #Trixie and #Wayland: Has anybody an idea how to enable horizontal window scrolling via Shift T…

Kalpa clocks in at around 930Mb for a Wayland KDE 6.3.4 session. That's neatly low. I think htop, fastfetch, git and mc should be included in the main image, as should Okular and Gwenview be (although they are available as a flatpak). The inclusion of Falkon ootb is amusing at best; I know no one who uses that browser. And Firefox is installed as a Flatpak, so why bother.
Anyway a solid, fully functional but minimal spin. As I like it 😎

So, after a week spent on #Wayland with #sway and #hyprland, it's back to xorg and Enlightenment for me. WebEx is unusable in tiling WMs and on Wayland, and muscle memory with E is too strong. Year of the …

»Umbruch am Linux-Desktop – Nach nur ein paar Jahrzehnten wird es ernst mit dem Ende von X11:
Sowohl das GNOME-Projekt als auch die entsprechenden Versionen von Fedora und Ubuntu streichen mit ihren kommenden Versionen die Unterstützung für den alten Grafikserver. Wayland übernimmt«
Hui… nun ist es so zu sagen offiziell nach Jahrzehnten deren Doppelleben der Linux Desktops.
🐧

Umbruch am Linux-Desktop: Nach nur ein paar Jahrzehnten wird es ernst mit dem Ende von X11
Sowohl das GNOME-Projekt als auch die entsprechenden Versionen von Fedora und Ubuntu streichen mit ihren kommenden Versionen die Unterstützung für den alten Grafikserver. Wayland übernimmt

Oh wow. It looks like I last used HaikuOS for real in 2023 judging by screenshots, but holy moly, it's come a long way since. Typing this from my LibreWolf with extensions running and everything. There are minor issues with some of these Wayland/GTK ports, but they are absolutely usable. And lots of software has shown up in HaikuDepot since last time. I just wish sound was working on my hardware so this could be a fully viable desktop for me.

Hey @… I'm talking to somebody about sponsoring work on https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8609 so we can get full multi-viewport wo…

Support multi-viewport on Wayland via xdg-toplevel-drag · Issue #8609 · ocornut/imgui
Version/Branch of Dear ImGui: latest docking Back-ends: any Compiler, OS: Linux Full config/build information: No response Details: Multi-viewport is currently not supported on Wayland (#8587 and o...

#LibreOffice lagging during scroll in KDE/Wayland?
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=brol libreoffice
#Linux

#niri has been my door to #Wayland
What about you? Maybe you don't even care about moving out of X11.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/s…

TIL: In #Linux, when you "switch user" (in Wayland or X11), the second user opens up a separate session which you can directly switch to using the Ctrl-Alt-F-keys without re-authenticating, as long as the user-specific sessions aren't locked.
In Debian 13 #GNOME, the first user session is Ct…

In "dealing with Electron apps" news: troubleshooting blurry _Visual Studio Code_ under Wayland. Culprit? Fractional scaling. That was a lot of fun...
The new command:
```
/usr/share/code --unity-launch --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1
```
#linux

@… https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286592
286592 – x11/sddm: Plasma Wayland, pressing "Ctrl C" causes an…

Okay, so that install went well. Except for that darn Dank stuff. But I'll ask Jay about that, waybar is fine for now.
EDIT: on Slackware you start it by adding { spawn-at-startup "qs" "-c" "DankMaterialShell" } to your config.kdl
Where I stranded last time was (not) running Brave, but a { spawn "brave-browser-stable" "--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform" "--ozone-platform=wayland" } fixed that 🥳 .
Two items …

The more it is evolving, the less stable it becomes. I'm using #KDE since version 1.1. And with KF6 it is for the first time that I experience the repeated total freeze of the entire desktop, because it can't handle a dock and more than one monitor. Wayland is definitely the systemd moment for desktop-linux. X-Windows was mutilated before Wayland actually worked (let alone missing network capabilit…

So, I'm trying out Wayland to use HDR. Man it looks nice :ablobcatbouncefast: . Reaper looks like it works fine, now to test some games because I'm using Nvidia graphics :3 #wayland

wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880

Mouse position portal · Issue #880 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Some apps (a small minority, I will admit) have features that pair with being able to track the mouse. One such app is the Virtual Puppet Project's mouse tracker plugin, which uses the mouse instea...

CachyOS is all the rage.
CachyOS is indeed very fast, even on this underpowered Chromebook.
It is also kinda broken.
The installer is so close to unusable (as in, it's a GUI, but the mouse cursor doesn't curse and the display brightness is pegged at minimum and can't be controlled) that I very nearly gave up. Installing Arch on the CLI is far faster.
Wayland is irritating, the font rendering is still fucked (text literally jiggles around on screen!) and the s…

Small achievement: Managed to configure the Steam controller for #BattleForWesnoth, so now I can play it on the big screen. 🎮 (The tricky part was getting the controller's mouse emulation work under Wayland, but then it's great for mouse keyboard games!) BfW is still one of the greatest games of all time, if you ask me, and it simply never gets old. 🧝‍♂️

Roadblock. Trying to get `hudkit` running on Wayland, and it's apparently easier said than done. It's the only way to get IINACT working on #Linux for #FFXIV
Need to dig into documentation to find out how to get it working. Fun times.

from my link log —
A comprehensive list of Wayland compositors.
https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
saved 2025-05-26 https://

lol this project can go fuck itself
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
: Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy

Okay, no fetches and no Mate here.
But just showing off that FreeBSD has that great Wayland stack, very much up to date, in the Ports collection.
River WM, Wayland, wezterm, FreeBSD 14.3.
#freebsd #riverwm

If you're on KDE and Wayland, I'm very sorry to hear that, but if in that case you'd still like to have some XScreenSavers you can try this on:
https://github.com/theodric/input_xss
I don't think I'm catching DBus events in the canonical manner, but it's working well en…

It's been more than a year since I last gave #Nouveau and #NVK a try, as the #NVIDIA open kernel modules mostly run fine on

Calibrating baryonic effects in cosmic shear with external data in the LSST era
Amy Wayland, David Alonso, Matteo Zennaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11943 …

Calibrating baryonic effects in cosmic shear with external data in the LSST era
Cosmological constraints derived from weak lensing (WL) surveys are limited by baryonic effects, which suppress the non-linear matter power spectrum on small scales. By combining WL measurements with data from external tracers of the gas around massive structures, it is possible to calibrate baryonic effects and, therefore, obtain more precise cosmological constraints. In this study, we generate mock data for a Stage-IV weak lensing survey such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), X-r…

GoldenDict's pop-up window doesn't work in KDE/Wayland when you are selecting a word in any app & pressing [Ctrl C, Ctrl C]?
Put "goldendict $(wl-paste)" in a proper .sh script. Add it in your Application Launcher. Set [Ctrl C, Ctrl C] (or whatever) in System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts

Finally find the door to #Wayland thanks to #niri. If #bspwm was the perfect tiling WM for me in X11, niri is just as good while expanding the work space possibilities.
I'm so grateful th…

Just spent a while playing with #void #linux in a VM for a few hours; it's curious - it feels quite old school; it's got an installer but it's fairly basic; it's got it's own packaging system which seems to work OK; and have Wayland running on it (using labwc)
(I ended up using …

There is a well known bug with Wayland & SDDM on FreeBSD KDE: Ctrl C by keypress abruptly throws you out of your Wayland session. Two things to add to that:
First: KDE and FreeBSD devs are actively looking for FreeBSD help in this, bcs the regular systemd type of logs are obviously not available here for bug tracing. If you can help, please do!
Second: Found a great solutions in the FreeBSD forums. It's a bit hidden in the threads so for clarity's sake:
I disab…

Service announcement (for myself and all ye geeks):
For all that newish Wayland KDE Hypr *SD Niri Atomic-or-composable dinit shizzle:
I love it all (you know I do), but nothing comes close atm to my Slackware dwm in productivity. And fun!
It-just-works.
Realitycheck ✅
#slackware

That is a lot of fun! The update to 6.4.4 is rolling out as we speak, but just to give a first impression.
Plasma 6.4.3, Wayland session, basics installed and up and running. Even Spectacle (was a big issue previously) works well.
Wrapping up tomorrow, I've deserved that cool 🍻 for now.
#freebsd

I wrote up how I installed KDE Plasma 6.4.4, running Wayland, on FreeBSD:
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install

Because it is inevitable that they are going to ram Wayland down our throats whether we want it or not, I have spent the evening working on some glue to launch XScreenSavers after an idle period. (Not locking, just demos.)
XScreenSaver accepts -activate and -deactivate commands, so I'm just watching for idle and running those commands in response. The idle logic works well (but requires privileged access to /dev/input/event* devices).
What has cost me most of the evening is p…

I couldn't come up with a better way than this to minimize a Chrome app on autostart (KDE, Wayland, clean session)
(avoids setting a KDE window rule, which makes awkward opening the app in session)
google-chrome [arguments] & sleep 2; kdotool search --class [window class] windowminimize &

So some guy who was an active developer of Xorg forked it, and now we have to kill X11 support ASAP because...to hell with the system that works, everybody has to use jank-ass Wayland?

The 10th-century Old English poem 'Deor' begins with the line 'Wēlund him be wurman wræces cunnade' which translates roughly to 'Wayland was plagued by bugs' and that pretty much sums up my experiences with it

One aspect that's often overlooked with dwm is its portability and uniqueness.
The dwm I'm sporting is one that no one else has; it is totally mine and in that sense unique.You build your own program, patches, binds et al.
Making sure all prerequisites are fulfilled you can then just copy your suckless configs to basically any distro and run a make clean install.
That's why I learned to love dwm and why it's still the best wm around, wayland or not.

We should make a 100% POSIX-incompliant Linux distribution and then try and get the Wayland people to adopt it as their only supported target because it's 'new' and 'not old'

Because you need to start somewhere, I'll be putting KDE 6.4.4 with FreeBSD on my laptop today. That latest Plasma arrived in Ports yesterday already. As I mentioned before FreeBSD can be very quick with cutting edge updates (basically anything Wayland as well, i.e. Niri et al). By using the latest KDE, which I'm very familiar with, it gives me all the time to learn about FreeBSD. Looking forward to it!

A number of distros are a bit behind, but FreeBSD also has Plasma 6.4.2 in the repos. Hope they get the Wayland session fixed for it, it goes to show they are very much on the front foot here. If so KDE would easily become the nr. 1 desktop in BSD land.
#freebsd #kde

Amidst all computing hype (of which I am a big generator myself) I am happy to let everyone know that my dwm setup is almost there and running smoothly on Slackware. Of course. I think I'll make this my x11 setup, with Mate, dwm, probably awesomewm and that spectre thing. I mean, who needs Wayland anyway?

You know what's nice? Terminals like kitty or alacritty, that work on both x11 and wayland. Makes for a more streamlined setup if you're using both. So, kudos to @… and his slackeroni repo, alacritty is in there (bcs of niri) as a ready to use package and has now been deployed by me on both Mate and Hyprland. I can tell you compiling it yourself is a depende…