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What are some things X11 can do that Wayland still can't? (piefed.zip)
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The biggest thing I can think of is that X11 is more flexible when it comes to specifying custom resolutions; which some people use to output 240p on CRT TVs for emulation. AFAIK, there is currently no real equivalent for xrandr on any Wayland compositor.

I've also noticed that Grsync's password prompt is broken on Wayland. Thankfully, it has a feature that lets you preview the command it's about to run, so that you can copy and paste it into a terminal.

Being a KDE user on EndeavourOS, I use Wayland everyday. I switched over a few years ago for Waydroid, but now X11 isn't even an option for me with the current release of KDE.

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[–] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Automated window positioning through tools like wmctrl and xdotool. There are replacements on Wayland but they're either missing features or are tied to a specific window manager.

I use Xfce, and I like writing bash scripts that can work anywhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    that can work anywhere

    prob more people using KDE now than X11 ;)

    Universal stuff for those (under wayland) compositor-specific functionalities kinda became impossible when wayland became standard.

    In some cases there's tools that support kwin, mutter, and wlroots, which is now as close to universal as you can probably get for things without standardized wayland api.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Interesting how introducing a new standard made it impossible to have a standard.

    By the time Xfce supports it maybe it'll be in a more stable state. Not interested in switching to KDE.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    Xfce does support wayland, though in earlier stages than most, who had it somewhat stable it for like 3-4 years now. Xfce started experimentally with 4.20, and should be stabelizing it right now. If you update to 4.22 unstable it might just work just fine.

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