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Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 day ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I use rustdesk with wayland, works for me for everything i need it to. As for barriers, i believe input-leap works with wayland.

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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!)

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 0 points 15 hours ago

I think Rustdesk for me as well. My main computer is a Windows laptop, but I use a few Linux laptops around the house to control it and others with Rustdesk. Alt+Tab works on the remote system in Gnome Classic (I think that's what it's called - says X11) but on the other options it performs switches locally only. Tested on Debian and Fedora.