Wayland Support Issues

Discussions center on the limitations and lack of support for various tools, features, and applications under Wayland compared to X11, including complaints about compatibility, design choices, and workarounds.

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ubercow13 • Jan 30, 2024 • View on HN

What? Doesn't Wayland work this way by design?

rouxz • Dec 15, 2024 • View on HN

Experimental Wayland support is a dealbreaker.

MBCook • Feb 29, 2024 • View on HN

Can you explain what’s so much better about Wayland support?

znpy • Oct 25, 2020 • View on HN

good luck doing that with wayland

pluijzer • Sep 14, 2023 • View on HN

I thought this was specifically not part of Wayland, am I wrong?

ParetoOptimal • Jan 15, 2024 • View on HN

Without Wayland I'm pretty sure this is still the case.

sandreas • Jan 15, 2022 • View on HN

Could you give more details on that? This sounds like Wayland is not your favourite...

steakscience • Mar 7, 2023 • View on HN

Wayland is great but Sway/any wlroots based window manager can't handle HiDPI properly for X apps :(

phkahler • Jul 28, 2017 • View on HN

How is the native Wayland support these days?

coldblues • Oct 3, 2023 • View on HN

If you're wondering, it doesn't work on Wayland.