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KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

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Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#41

This is a real shame. I'm using X11 still because Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland, and the alternative (Vesktop) doesn't support keybinds when the window isn't focused. Since my distro (Arch) doesn't support holding back packages, I guess I'll have to switch distros entirely so that my Discord setup stays working. :/

I use Discord App on Arch on KDE on Wayland. What are the issues that you are facing?

Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The future is now old man.

Why do you think it's acceptable to insult someone when they have a legitimate concern regarding a software defect?

Oops...I dropped this /s

Just so I'm clear: I still think it's too early to drop X11 support (even though Wayland has been basically fine for me for a long time).

Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#43

This is a real shame. I'm using X11 still because Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland, and the alternative (Vesktop) doesn't support keybinds when the window isn't focused. Since my distro (Arch) doesn't support holding back packages, I guess I'll have to switch distros entirely so that my Discord setup stays working. :/

You can use IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. Things might break, but the feature exists.

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Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#44

I tried Wayland earlier today on my home lab with Plasma and FreeBSD. It seemed pretty great for a bit and ran my monitor at 120Hz. Until it hard crashed my machine after I opened discord in firefox. Konqueror crashed on opening.

KDE on Linux is the way. Extremely Stable.

Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#46
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As an X11 holdout, my time seems nigh.

Wayland+sway switch from x11+i3 is so simple and works so well. Only minor annoying thing not working for me are right-click context menus on some applets like Blueman and Steam.

One’s minor annoyance is someone else’s dealbreaker.

Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#47

This is a real shame. I'm using X11 still because Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland, and the alternative (Vesktop) doesn't support keybinds when the window isn't focused. Since my distro (Arch) doesn't support holding back packages, I guess I'll have to switch distros entirely so that my Discord setup stays working. :/

> Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland

Is this specifically to do with screen sharing or streaming? I use it purely as a chat client under Wayland and it has generally worked fine.

(Now that I think of it, I've had a few weird crashes, but nothing which made it unusable)

Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#48

Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. The fonts look terrible on it. I had to move to KDE Plasma on X11 ever since GNOME started forcing Wayland on us. I guess I have to buy a 4K monitor in future.

You can. KDE Wayland allows you to even set fractional scaling. I had 125% on one monitor and 100% on three others. all work like a chgarm

Re: KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

#49

Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. The fonts look terrible on it. I had to move to KDE Plasma on X11 ever since GNOME started forcing Wayland on us. I guess I have to buy a 4K monitor in future.

Sure it does. I have that set right now... Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland

How to do it? I am not talking about fractional scaling.
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