Strit

Strit, 7 months ago

The Arch wiki article already states it’s unmaintained since January 2023. So Arch users have had almost a year to find another solution at this point.

Strit, 7 months ago

I agree. I’d love a quick TL:DR or rundown.

Strit, 7 months ago

The problem, as I see it, is that the author of the original Gist does not really want wayland replacements for what he has, but rather what he has to also work on wayland.

Wayland didn’t break everything. It broke what relied on X11 specific stuff, which turned out to be a lot of things. The vast majority of issues still present with Wayland are edge-cases that will only see the light of day when the people with those edge-cases start using wayland. And as long as distros default to X11, that won’t happen. So that distros, like Fedora, started defaulting to Wayland “early” on (yes I put early in quotes, because it’s only perceived as early) is actually a good thing. Makes the compositor developers aware of edge-cases they can’t catch themselves.

I’vge been using Wayland exclusively for over a year and apart from a couple of small bugs, not even missing functions, I haven’t experienced any issues relating to Wayland directly. But that’s for my use case. YMMV as always.

Strit, 7 months ago

Screenlocking works just fine. That was not the issue mentioned.

Strit, 7 months ago

I think maybe Enlightenment can do that, but I’m not sure.

Normally workspace definitions are systemwide not monitor specific. A workspace uses all monitors on the system.

Strit, 7 months ago

Workspace is not the same as Workstation…

Strit, 7 months ago

As far as I know, only the kernel module was open sourced and in doing that Nvidia moved a lot of stuff from the driver, to the firmware/software part of their stack instead. So you would still need those, which are not open.

Strit, 7 months ago

OBS can capture wayland output just fine. At least in recent versions 29.X for sure. I don’t know how the Debian/Raspberry Pi OS repositories updates them. Hopefully they have a newer version these days.

Strit, 7 months ago

I know newer versions of Spectacle can do short video recordings. But that’s a Plasma app.

Strit, 7 months ago

I’m a KDE Plasma user and it’s using Noto Fonts by default IIRC. So that’s what I use.

Strit, 7 months ago

Seems correct: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_shortcuts#Kerne…

SystemD defined default it looks like.

Strit, 7 months ago

I’m surprises no one has mentioned the ones I use most days.

• git (version control software development)
• openssh (for ssh connections to other devices)
• handbrake (video transcoding)
• Element (matrix client)

Strit, 7 months ago

I’ve had no issues saving to same folder as source when doing batch transcoding queues on Arch Linux. As long as the input and output files does not have the same filename it’s fine.

Strit, 7 months ago

I just realized you might be talking about the CLI version? I’m talking about the GUI version.

Strit, 8 months ago

What if your app actually needs access to the internet?

Strit, 8 months ago

The couple of apps I use through flatpak has not had any issues as far as I can tell. Other than maybe being a little slow to get pushed to the newest version.

Strit, 8 months ago

Maybe stock Ubuntu?

It’s pretty new. Has wayland and pipewire. You can just enable a checkmark in the installer to install codecs. Uses Gnome, so a non-Windows like workflow. Pretty sure Eduroam would work there, as many schools use Ubuntu by default.