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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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[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

i heard about that. sadly my gpu is so old the latest driver that supports it is the 470 driver

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you can hold onto that GPU for a little longer with X11. But it seems you'll need an upgrade some time later. Though if you don't game (aside from FOSS ones), Nouveau driver should do the job for your daily needs. However, it still needs time for Wayland.

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

the nouveau driver works fine except when it crashes for no clear reason after some hours of usage

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Even on X11? I tried it on Wayland months ago to see its state and it was generally fine except gaming. Though the results still might depend on the card in use I guess.

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Even on X11?

yup. i think it had something to do with video calls or screen sharing, which are essential at work

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

That makes sense. Nouveau isn't mature for some use cases yet, even though they made a huge jump with NVK. Hardware upgrade might be closer than you think then.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 1 points 2 hours ago

670 is still better than nothing.

Hopefully it can find its way to someone else's home on the cheap and still give them plenty of years of fun.