Questions tagged [wayland]
A display server protocol that is intended to replace the X Window System. Wayland is a rewrite from the ground up of the Linux graphical display subsystem.
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Why does X11 Forwarding not work when usePAM is activated?
2 weeks ago the IT department changed my sshd_config by enabling usePAM yes.
But since that day my X11 forwarding stopped working. Why is that not working?
When i set usePAM no it works again.
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How to use Redshift or ANY warm light program in Xfce 4.16?
I have recently installed Debian 11 Xfce. I normally use Redshift but it doesn't work because Redshift cannot work with Wayland.
I don't seem to be able to switch Debian 11 Xfce to X11 [would be great ...
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Getting information for a graphics card in a Wayland session?
In the context of generally troubleshooting Wayland, for this given graphics card:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd ...
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startxfce4 in another TTY and in parallel to wayland session
I have archlinux with Wayland (sway) and an NVidia GPU. Due to the latter, a few things are still glitchy and I need to have another desktop environment for certain apps. I installed xfce. When I ...
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Configure mouse button as a combination of keyboard keys under Wayland
I know how to map one mouse button onto one keyboard key, but how do you map one mouse button onto a combination of keyboard keys? What is the HWDB syntax? This below doesn't work: the latest 9000x ...
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Why is Gnome fractional scaling 1.7518248558044434 instead of 1.75?
If I set 175% scaling in Gnome Settings, the value is saved as 1.7518248558044434 in ~/.config/monitors.xml:
<monitors version="2">
<configuration>
<logicalmonitor>
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Touchpad not concrolled by system settings any more
I am using Pop_OS and I had the problem that I couldn't change the scroll speed of my touchpad through the system settings (Gnome).
After searching across the internet it seemed that I may be able to ...
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Wayland Issue on FreeBSD
The Problem
Hello, I am completely new to FreeBSD and relatively new to UNIX systems in general. I am following the FreeBSD Handbook, and loving it so far. My goal is to install river tiling window ...
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Looking to re-map left super key to control + C (copy)
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Wayland), and Ideally I'd like to remap my left Super key to "Copy" and my left Alt key to "Paste".
By running xev, my left Super key is keycode 133, and ...
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Scancode is missing for XF86 key, yet keycode is available
I have a recent X1 thinkpad w/Fedora OS, and the new F9-F11 special keys don't work. They don't appear to be specified in the XF86 multimedia keys list: notifications, start call, and end call. From ...
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Xorg started in wrong GPU
I have a system with two discrete GPUs, an nvidia one, which I use for playing and CUDA stuff, and an AMD one which I want to use to drive the desktop session. Displays are connected to the AMD card.
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Calibrate touchscreen of external Monitor under wayland sway
How do I calibrate the touchscreen of an external display under wayland - sway?
If I plug an external monitor with touch support the touch input is getting mapped to the main monitor, not the external ...
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How to globally set all electron apps to have --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland options?
I switched to wayland on arch linux and it introduced a lot of bugs. Many are related to electron apps. I have find out that I can solve them by starting apps with this options:
--enable-features=...
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Second monitor flickering and leaving trail with black background in extended display on Manjaro GNOME/Wayland
I am running the latest version of GNOME and Wayland on my Manjaro computer. When I connect my second monitor and extend my display, one screen flickers and the mouse icon leaves a trail, with a black ...
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SetGroup xkb action not working on Xwayland - workaround
I am planning to switch to wayland for years now but only thing keeping me from finally switching is this bug.
this is the issue:
For some reason, using a switch option to switch between layouts (...
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How to start Weston as user in a systemd service
I am using Debian Bullseye. I would like to run Weston as a user from a systemd service. I need default drm backend, thus I assume it needs to be started as root using weston-launch. However, I have ...
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Nemo refuses to open as root with Wayland
I am trying to get Sway setup with Wayland however when I try to open Nemo as root in its context menu the "polkit-gnome" password prompt appears but fails to elevate Nemo. What am I missing?...
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How do I change gnome desktop zoom increment to something other than 25%
I am using the standard version of Fedora 37 (Workstation Edition) and it supports desktop zoom. The standard version seems to use the Gnome 43.2 on Wayland windowing system. I know you can go into ...
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How to disable / block touchpad gestures from a "mouse" on KDE with Wayland?
I am struggling with a bit of a strange setup and am hoping to find some pointers or ideas over here.
The system of choice for me is Arch Linux, with KDE Plasma and Wayland. My device is a OneXplayer ...
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Can you remap REL_HWHEEL to BTN_* events or key combination using hwdb?
I have a mouse (Logitech M705) that features a 4-way scroll wheel.
The left/right press are basically buttons, so not like an actual horizontal scroll wheel.
Since I have no use for the horizontal ...
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How can I mitigate the keylogging issue of Xorg?
My plan is to:
Turn off listening to all sockets, and initiate X through a command
such as: Xorg -nolisten tcp -nolisten inet -nolisten inet6 -nolisten unix -nolisten local :0 -seat seat0 vt7 -...
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KDE Wayland session crashing when waking from standby or the screenlocker - how to find out why?
I'm running Debian 11 with KDE and Wayland. This is a problem of Wayland instead of X11 with the version of KDE of Debian11.
When I wake from standby I usually have that other login screen that also ...
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Use DP connected to discrete nvidia GPU with Gnome Wayland
I've got a laptop with both Ryzen and Nvidia graphics.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have a mux and my displayport is connected to the NVidia card.
Under XOrg, I can set the NVidia GPU as primary, and ...
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Gnome installed after LXQt doesn't use Wayland?
While streaming and recording with Debian 11, running LXQt and Openbox as the WM, I would drastically lose frames. I heard that the solution for this would be to use XWayland or qtwayland5 on LXQt, ...
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Script to start Android LineageOS with Waydroid in an X11 session
I would like to make a script to start the Waydroid Android container (LineageOS).
Currently, I can start a LineageOS virtual phone without issues with:
sudo systemctl start waydroid-container
weston
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Random windows & application switching between monitor when multiple monitors go to sleep
TL;DR Is there a way to delay the window manager automatically moving applications to active monitors when one of multiple monitors turns off? I'm running KDE.
I'm running Kubuntu 22.04. I have a ...
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Why am I using x11 instead of wayland on bookworm?
I got curious about Wayland and trying to switch to it. First, I wanted to make sure I was using X11, so with the help of How to know whether Wayland or X11 is being used I typed the command:
➜ ~ ...
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XWayland applications with black flickering
Currently on my computer I have ArchLinux with sway-nvidia + nvidia-lts. With 2 monitors (1080p 144hz and 1080p 60hz) The wayland applications work perfectly (Chrome, vkube, alacritty, etc) but the ...
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How to set xkb variant in sway for one of multiple layouts
I want to set the German layout with nodeadkeys as default, and the other layouts with default variant.
It works when I set just the German layout and its variant, but not with multiple layouts:
input ...
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Wayland - partially disable a mouse button that is used for scrolling
I use a Logitech trackball (Trackman) and I have set one of the buttons to do scrolling, thing is, it is set to a back button as well.
Before upgrading, I had it set in the xorg.conf, but on wayland ...
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why does application not start with systemd script
I would like to executea script as root whenever I boot the system.
I wrote a shell script:
# cat /home/root/demo_wrap.sh
#!/bin/bash
`/home/root/demo_start.sh` > /dev/null &
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udev not remapping Elecom mouse button
After numerous attempts I'm stumped trying to remap buttons on my new Elecom Hard trackball. I'm following the instructions for remapping with udev hwdb: https://yulistic.gitlab.io/2017/12/linux-...
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Tiger VNC Wayland Issue
I've more or less setup tiger-vnc with this guide:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/centos-install-and-configure-vnc-server/
The problem I'm facing is that when I enable the following, I am unable ...
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How do you maintain/configure fonts or icons properly in Linux?
What I've understood with fonts and icons is that when the fonts are installed, and when the fonts used are explicitly specified by the application, the fonts will be correct.
However, with most of ...
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Universal way of setting display resolution from a Linux application
I want to set the display resolution before starting a fullscreen window on Linux and I want to do it from inside the application.
The problem is, that I am looking for a universal way to do so, but ...
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Remote Desktop Solution for Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, RDP, and session management
I've been looking for a Remote Desktop solution for Ubuntu 22.04.
'gnome-remote-desktop', Ubuntu 22.04's standard RDP solution, automatically quits when the user logs out and it does not support login ...
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How can I wake up the Debian 11 screen (Wayland) from the command line? (Deactivate "blank screen")
I've set up an MQTT program to control my Debian server. I have a motion sensor in my server closet, and I want the screen to come on automatically when I walk into the closet (even before I move the ...
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Fedora 37/Wayland - Touchpad works but most gestures don't
I've used Linux daily for over a decade but have always run it in a VM or on a server due to the user experience typically not being quite on par with Windows/OSX (without significant fiddling).
I ...
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screenshare in chrome with wayland + pipewire in KDE
I am using archlinux with pipewire, wireplumber, plasma and xdg-desktop-portal-kde
plasmashell --version ...
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In a Wayland session, how to automatically disable input devices when the laptop lid is closed?
Running X11 I could install acpid and modify the /etc/acpi/handler.sh script to use xinput to do the deed:
button/lid)
case "$3" in
close)
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Remap Keys to output Unicode characters
My goal is to typeset mathematics/physics more efficiently and more readable by remapping my keys to use the proper Unicode symbols.
Therefore, I want to remap my keys, such that pressing Alt Gr + ...
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Technical reason why Gnome's fracional scaling is limited to multiple of 1/4?
I can understand why 100%, 200%, 300%... scalings are technically easier. But when it comes to fractional scaling, why is it limited to 125%, 150%, and 175%? Is it more difficult to implement, for ...
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How to set a specific key in wayland?
I already set ctrl:nocaps through gnome-tweaks to avoid pinky injury. However, I still need to have Cap Lock somewhere.
On X11 I usually do
printf "keycode 127 = Caps_Lock NoSymbol Caps_Lock&...
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KDE/Wayland How to switch program when clicking notification?
I'm on Arch/KDE/Wayland.
Currently KDE won't switch to a program if I click the belonging notification, for example if I get a eMail in thunderbird.
Also switching to e.g. my browser doesn't work if I ...
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How can I change the keyboard layout in SDDM in combination with Wayland and without systemd?
I want to change the keyboard layout to de (German) for typing my password to login to KDE.
None of the solutions/suggestions I found on the Internet combine the following three parts that I use and ...
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Every electron application blank screen when using Wayland
In programs made with Electron (eg MongoDB Compass / or my Electron program, etc.), the screen is black or white.
This can be fixed via the "--disable-gpu-compositing" argument to each ...
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Font smoothing issues in flatpak Firefox on KDE
I've been trying to write a script to launch Firefox on the Steam Deck from Gaming Mode. Just launching it directly doesn't work well because of how Steam Deck manages the window, so I wrote a script ...
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On Gnome, is it possible to tile windows vertically?
The Gnome documentation only refers to horizontal tiling — two windows side-by-side, each taking half of the screen space. A four-window setup could make a ≥40'' display significantly more viable for ...
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How to prevent KDE session from quitting when switching the display in Debian 11?
I have two displays and am using Debian 11/KDE with Wayland.
As a workaround to prevent another bug, I have the HDMI cable to the second display disconnected except when I use it.
When switching the ...
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How do I force applications to use AMD GPU over NVIDIA?
I have two dedicated GPUs in a desktop with no iGPU. One is NVIDIA and one is AMD. I would like to use the AMD card for everything while still having the option of loading the proprietary NVIDIA ...
