Questions tagged [wayland]
Wayland is a simplified replacement for the X Window System in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It consists of a display server (the Wayland compositor), a communication protocol, and a C library reference implementation named Weston. Use this tag for questions pertaining specifically to Wayland or Weston.
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Nested desktop (plasma) session with a different user in Wayland?
I'm using KDE with Wayland on Fedora Workstation. I like to keep my work applications and files separate from my personal account, but also like to stay logged in as my personal account so I can do ...
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Why does sudo GUI app freeze?
I have this weird problem, which I had under Nixos and now have under Ubuntu as well, both in Wayland sessions:
First I allow the user to start X apps:
xhost +SI:localuser:theuser
Then I start the ...
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Arrow key repeat is not working in Google Chrome under Wayland
This problem differs from the Left arrow and right arrow keys not working in google chrome search bar issue.
Google Chrome will not repeat any arrow key when held down in any text field while running ...
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How to stop Bluetooth from waking my monitors from sleep every 15 minutes with Debian/KDE?
My monitors keep turning on without me touching anything every 15 minutes when my computer is signed into but locked and I can't figure out a fix.
Logs are showing Bluetooth related activity during ...
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How to prevent external monitor become primary when lid closed in Fedora Linux 43?
I have an external monitor connected over HDMI (NVIDIA) to my laptop and would like for it to turn off when the lid of the laptop is closed. Without the external monitor, the laptop screen is turned ...
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GNOME 49 Wayland: custom shortcut (Win + G) won’t focus already-running Gedit
On Arch Linux (GNOME 49.0, Wayland) I set a custom shortcut Super + G to open gedit.
It opens gedit if gedit isn’t running, but does nothing when it’s already open.
Under X11 this used to focus the ...
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How do I make Shift+Alt work just as well as Alt+Shift in KDE Wayland?
When I used KDE in Xorg, I could switch keyboard layout by pressing Shift+Alt, even though in the GUI it was described as Alt+Shift. But in Wayland (which I'm forced to use due to Xorg being unstable ...
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Taking a long time to display screen when switching from laptop to desktop PC
I have an old PC running Ubuntu 25.04, with Wayland, which has an nVidia card with a DisplayPort socket. This is connected to a KVM switch via a DisplayPort-to-HDMI adaptor. The monitor attached to ...
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wpaperd wallpaper should not use space behind waybar on wayland with niri compositor
I'd like my wallpapers not to extend below the waybar (taskbar). I've already studied and tried the configurations of waybar, wpaperd and niri extensively without success.
My question is, which ...
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Touchscreen y axis inversion using wayland and libinput in KDE
I'm using Plasma 6 (KDE) on Linux (arch) in a Ghia OnlyDue 2 in 1 laptop/tablet. It uses a silead touch screen (identified as MSSL1680). I've added the driver in /lib/firmware/silead and when I load ...
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how to reload keyboard layout in KDE using wayland?
I have my own keyboard layout. Today I realised, I need empty set symbol to be added. So I add it. On X11, I'd simply type setxkbmap cz alfonz and done. But not in wayland.
On wayland this produces:
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Why can't I copy text to the clipboard from neovim with sudo?
I run this:
sudo nvim
Inset mode, type any text, normal mode
Select text with mouse
Right Click and "Copy"
See error:
clipboard: error invoking xclip:
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or ...
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VirtualBox chooses the monitor's highest res. not the one the host is configured for
Just upgraded from Kubuntu 24.04 to Kubuntu 24.10 and switched to Wayland in the process.
I have a 4k monitor that I prefer to use at 2560x1440.
Before upgrading, VB (VirtualBox) was picking up the ...
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Transfer chats to waydroid GAPPS whatsapp
I'm trying to move my main WhatsApp client from my smartphone to my PC. To do this, I installed WhatsApp on an emulator running Waydorid (with GAPPS), and everything appeared to work fine initially. I ...
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Fedora 41 (KDE Plasma Spin) is hanging on boot, cannot do anything except ctrl+alt+delete
I was using Fedora normally, before I needed to reboot it, and when it loaded up again, I was met with a black screen. I was not even met with the SDDM greeter, where I log in and select sessions from....
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