On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:04 PM Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 12:45 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The ideal is that [switching to Wayland] should eventually > > become a mostly transparent experience for people. It's not quite > > there yet, but it's very close now. > > As a user, my concern is exactly this - will the things I have set-up > over the years continue to work with Wayland? If not, will there be a > direct replacement? > > As an example, these are on my "must have" list before I can even > consider Wayland: > - remote *application*, not desktop. I.e X over a ssh tunnel. [As I > understand it, there is a tool to handle remote applications available > (or in development)] This has worked for years, just nobody knew it existed. $ waypipe ssh <user>@<host> You need the package "waypipe" installed on both ends, but once you have it, it'll handle the tunneling for you. > - ability to control windows using tools such as xdotool, wmctrl, etc. > - change focus, send mouse clicks and keypresses [I saw something > recently that seemed to suggest that this can be done using dbus?] > KWin has its own APIs and tools for this, I am unfamiliar with them, but I do know they exist as part of KWin itself. There is also the package "ydotool" which can help replace xdotool. > And it should go without saying that existing X apps should "just > work"; the one time I tried Wayland (back on f36 or so) very little > seemed to work other than KDE itself. As an example, konsole worked, > but xsane did not. To be fair I should probably give it a try again > to see how things have progressed. KDE Plasma Wayland is constantly and continually improving! Plasma 6 is going to be the largest boost in the experience in a while, though, because lots of work done by KDE in Qt is finally becoming available to leverage in Plasma. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
