Wayland is breaking a solid 30%-40% of everything on my computer right now, but I want to be better prepared for if/when I don’t have an x11 option.

Is there a forum or place where people listen and actually try to help you find fixes/workarounds for Wayland problems?

    • notreallyhere@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      well I was looking for a forum to start cataloging it but off the top of my head:

      copyq

      gnome-pie

      miss assigning xwayland

      not recognizing USB c monitors seen by xrandr

      window taring

      sudo commands

      executable binaries

      lots more

  • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    to help communicate and troubleshoot what is broken here, we need to think of Wayland as a protocol just like HTTP is a protocol

    saying “Wayland broke X” is like saying “HTTP broke X”, which is possible but not likely to be what you’re actually trying to say

    rather, we need to be talking about the implementation(s) of the protocol, not the protocol itself

    e.g. “HTTP broke X” -> “Google Chrome broke X”

    e.g. “Wayland broke X” -> “GNOME broke X”

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
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    3 months ago

    1. use a modern, popular distro. There are less things broken and you get more support

    2. do a fresh install with a fresh user to nor carry over your broken configs and customizations. Do everything from scratch again

    3. Tackle the issues one by one and provide detailed steps to reproduce, error messages, logs, screenshots or videos. You can ask right here on lemmy, but you’ll probably get more eyes on it on reddit tbh.

    I felt just like you a long time ago when kde introduced wayland at the end of 2016. After a couple of super frustrating months, I made a backup of my /home, migrated my archlinux to btrfs (by doing a fresh install) so I can have snapshots and revert if I mess something.

    Had only minor issues since then and most have been fixed some years later. Others I’ve learned how to work around (for example by using gamescope, because I have mixed resolution multi monitor setup and some games think my 2k screen is 4k)