For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to “remap” keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.

Secondly there’s XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.

None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there’s Espanso, but it doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts yet.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
    43•29 days ago

    Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.

    • esa
      11•29 days ago

      Yeah, I think my sway config is around five years old now. The Wayland experience hasn’t been entirely without warts, but as someone who kind of just uses the desktop to drive a browser and a bunch of terminals, there’s not a whole lot of problems to run into either.

  • @[email protected]
    6•29 days ago

    RustDesk (remote desktop control) and Barriers (KVM-like server to control my laptop screen from my desktop just by moving mouse to that screen). Both of these are tightly integrated in my daily workflow and would be a hard loss.

    There’s a modern fork of Barriers but I haven’t been able to get it working cross-platform yet. I know RustDesk is actively working to complete wayland support, but it’s not quite there yet.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•29 days ago

      I use rustdesk with wayland, works for me for everything i need it to. As for barriers, i believe input-leap works with wayland.

      • @[email protected]
        0•28 days ago

        RustDesk on Wayland can’t run headless, which I need (unless they fixed already and I just haven’t noticed yet - I know they’ve been working on it!)

        Yeah, Input-leap is the Barriers fork I was referring to. I need it to work on all platforms though, and I wasn’t able to get it working on macOS. I keep checking periodically tho (usually in response to posts like these - I wanna move Wayland like everyone else!)

        • @[email protected]English
          1•25 days ago

          I see, yea still can’t do headless in rust desk. You’re right about that.

          As for input-leap, yea, not too sure about mac, i’m a linux only guy at this point in time.

      • @[email protected]
        2•21 days ago

        Nice! DeskFlow seems like exactly what I was looking for as my Barrier replacement. I have an annoyance with Wayland where it won’t remember my preference to allow mouse/kb sharing, but more importantly IT WORKS, and better yet it’s an active project still. THANK YOU!

    • LumpyPancakesEnglish
      0•28 days ago

      I think Rustdesk for me as well. My main computer is a Windows laptop, but I use a few Linux laptops around the house to control it and others with Rustdesk. Alt+Tab works on the remote system in Gnome Classic (I think that’s what it’s called - says X11) but on the other options it performs switches locally only. Tested on Debian and Fedora.

  • @[email protected]
    6•29 days ago

    The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

  • GammaEnglish
    4•29 days ago

    autokey

    I accomplish the same thing with compose sequences, and by binding a keyboard shortcut in my desktop to call a script with wtype. It’s not a cross-compositor solution though, as you’d have to manually setup binds in each of them.

    I don’t see much hope for this one-to-one unfortunately.

  • @[email protected]
    4•29 days ago

    Talon voice.

    Autokey.

    Anydesk. (although rustdesk is probably going to replace that)

    Talon voice though. I’ll need X11 for the rest of my life.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•29 days ago

    I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•29 days ago

    Wayland’s been my daily driver for a few years now, mostly without incident. However, occasionally certain applications (Ryujinx and pcsx2, predictably) require the GDK_BACKEND=x11 environment variable to be set before they’ll function.

    • FrostyEnglish
      2•28 days ago

      I don’t have that variable set on my environment, but perhaps it’s due to my running PCSX2 as an AppImage?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•28 days ago

        I don’t have that variable set on my environment, but perhaps it’s due to my running PCSX2 as an AppImage?

        True. AppImages are often convenient because they run w/o requiring any env settings.

  • Magnus Åhall
    3•28 days ago

    For me is the lack of virtual displays is Wayland.

    I’m using a 49" monitor (with i3) and split it into virtual monitors/displays. For some tasks two displays are good, for others three, and all doesn’t need to be the same size.

    The reason for not using i3 splits is that many programs have fullscreen functions that I often use.

    Watching a movie is one example, where I have a script that automatically calculate the optimal width without borders and gives me an extra virtual display beside with whatever’s left.

    • Estebiu
      3•28 days ago

      Hyprland can tell a window to be in fullscreen when in fact, it’s not (it’s called… Fakefullscreen). I binded it to shift+f11 and its become part of my workflow, lol

  • @[email protected]
    3•28 days ago

    Couldn’t use xset to manually set some monitors to standby So I searched how to change it back to X.

    Also you couldn’t set display variable to another computer’s ip address (a windows one running xming)