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.
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Every time I build a new box or do an upgrade, I try selecting Plasma on Wayland from the login screen. Every time it doesn’t work, I select X11, and never think of it again for another six months to two years.
Must have been a long time since you built a box.
Two years, then the drive exploded a couple weeks ago and I rebuilt it just now. Doesn’t work out of the box, X11, does, so I’ve never looked into it.
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It’s hard to reproduce the same setup.
Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.
Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.
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)
XMonad
AwesomeWM, and xdotool.
That’s it. Oh and x-eyes of course
There’s ydotool.
I find it’s not as reliable in targeting inputs, and you sometimes need to set the XDG_RUNTIME variable yourself.
wtypeis much better at this, but is limited to keystrokes
what do you use x-eyes for?
I don’t think that was entirely serious…
👀
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html
Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.
Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?
You might be interested in river as a awesome replacement:
Appreciate the link, and I don’t mean to sound so ungrateful, but that extensive README contains everything except what exactly
riveris. Is it a desktop manager? A standalone compositor? What does it fix? What does it replace? etc.Edit: Oh, it’s a tiling window manager, and all WM in wayland have to be compositors.
I used to have issues with middle click scroll, but my own solution works fine and it works on Wayland and X11 too
I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.
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.
What about Deskflow? Worked pretty well for me.
I’ll check it out, thanks!
RDP.
??
RDP works on Wayland.
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.
Easystroke https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke, please, please, please somebody pick the project, I’ll gladly pay a license to use it.
Xfwm. Taskbars are now wayland, but don’t autohide without the compositor supporting it.
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=x11environment variable to be set before they’ll function.