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.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    21 分钟前
    • Run Birdtray
    • Not obnoxiously throw up W whenever it can’t find an icon for a program during alt tabbing
    • Not need extra extra handholding to run games properly without diagonal tears
  • Feidry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    12 分钟前

    Eyy, fellow EndeavorOS enjoyer! It’s been super solid since I installed it in like April of last year.

  • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
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    2 小时前

    In general, it’s things that Wayland chose not to do so as to have a better security model.

    For instance multi window apps can’t tell the compositor where to put their windows such as snapping a window to another or following a window. Apps can’t read other windows. It’s a good thing for security but it breaks some older tools and workflows.

    There’s others like multiple mouse cursors, registering global hotkeys, overscan correction etc but many of these things are being addressed and new standards are being drafted, it just takes time.

    I moved to Wayland very early on and, honestly, I’ve not had any problems but I don’t have a complicated or special setup.

    • 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world
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      2 小时前

      No global hotkeys is a dealbreaker for me, though.

      Once you get used to using custom global hotkeys as part of your workflow, you can never go back.

      • TwilightKiddyEnglish
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        59 分钟前

        It’s not about creating global hotkeys, it’s about registering them from a running program. There is nothing preventing you from creating a compositor-level keybinding, but an app cannot do that unless it figures out what compositor you are running and then handles the configuration for each and every compositor in existance.

        • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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          39 分钟前

          I wouldn’t worry about supporting every compositor in existence. Ideally, the Wayland spec would be unified, but it’s not.

          I feel like if someone created a compositor with an extension for that feature, it’d eventually become popular enough that people would start implementing that extension in other compositors.

    • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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      1 小时前

      It would be nice if end users had more choice in the matter. It’d be cool if someone made a Wayland compositor that allowed some of these features as an opt-in thing.

  • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
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    53 分钟前

    Correct me if this is no longer the case, but:

    Starting an old game fullscreen and having the lower resolution fill the HD/4K or what have you display and not just display a small box at 1:1 ratio with black borders all around. (Might also be AMD-related, not sure? X can do it, though.)

    Allow custom key maps with multiple level modifiers that are unconditionally accepted system-wide and not just in all applications except for that one that just won’t take that key combination.

  • Notamoosen@lemmy.zip
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    3 小时前

    For me it’s Steam Remote Play. I can’t say Wayland is unable to do it, but it’s always been so problematic I switch back to x11.

  • vividspecter@aussie.zone
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    2 小时前

    AFAIK, there is currently no real equivalent for xrandr on any Wayland compositor.

    Normally, you override the EDID rather than specifying modelines manually. Sway also has some limited custom resolution support, but it’s just resolution and refresh rate, and not precise timings. Apparently the DRM backend supports modelines, but that’s not really Wayland by my understanding, more like Steam’s gamescope mode.

    I’ve also noticed that Grsync’s password prompt is broken on Wayland.

    Forcing XWayland may help here. Otherwise, I assume the application is run as root which generally causes some issues with Wayland but potentially can be made to work.