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Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hey y'all

So I've been a big anti-Wayland shill around here but decided to finally give it a shot, I installed Debian 12 with GNOME, and can't seem to get Plank working.

Without the Plank dock, GNOME is unusable, and KDE refuses to autostart Guake (does not save the setting in autostart), and when it works it seems broken (stuck to the left side of the screen).

These are fundamental apps to me for any decent Linux laptop use. What gives? Is there an alternative?

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Hi,

It it possible that Plank doesn't work with Wayland, plain and simple.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/plank/+bug/1632841

The latest version dates back to 2019.

I think Dash to dock is used often.

For Guake the version in Bookworm is from 2022 and you may need to set an environmental variable or perhaps it isn't built with Wayland support on Debian.

You could hit up the Debian forums for a better answer.

[+] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

That's unfortunate. Will have to switch back to X.Org until this is fixed by the Wayland/XWayland developers, is there any clue as to why it specifically wouldn't work? If it's updated as recently as 2019 then I'd have expected Wayland to fix this by now, not like I'm trying to run a DOS game or something haha!

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Will have to switch back to X.Org until this is fixed by the Wayland/XWayland developers

This isn't the responsibility of “wayland developers”. The developers of an application need to adapt to the new API.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Also, for Plank at least, I have a feeling that development has stopped so waiting won't help. You'll need to find an alternative.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 7 months ago

Or they could develop the API in such a way it doesn't break every app for no reason. See the situation with PulseAudio for example.

Either way, hard to believe Wayland is still useless all these years later, can't even run Plank :(

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