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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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[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

huh? Isn't that the thing that let's me select the DE/Compositor/Server mashup while logging in? It just occured to me that this sounds like circular reasoning, but that's what it looks like it does

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. It's the only package on my system that still depends on X. Without it, I could remove X entirely.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What are you running?

SDDM 0.20 supports Wayland (marked experimental). Version 0.21 is out now.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 14 minutes ago

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/sddm

Debian's build still depends on an xserver.