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0 pointshorsawlarway5y ago0 comments

Honestly - It sounds like it's been a minute since you've tried it.

I can say that 4 years ago I was firmly in the "it isn't ready" camp.

2 years ago, touchpad support was my "killer feature" (I'm left handed and have issues with RSI in my right wrist).

Global hotkeys work pretty much everywhere I've tried in the last year or so (including being able to configure global hotkeys in an electron app I have to maintain for work, which was a nice plus). I also actually tend to like that they're centralized and apps aren't able to just stomp all over the configured hotkeys.

Screencasting is still a pain point, but I actually appreciate the security model that makes it painful, and pipewire is functional enough that I can pretty easily share a screen on anything that can run in a browser (Zoom, Discord, Hangouts - Slack is still a pain).

I don't have issues with XWayland being blurry - although I do have issues with Xwayland windows having the same scaling restrictions as X (If you move a window from a scaled screen to a non-scaled screen, it won't re-adjust). Fortunately, most of my daily apps are now Wayland native, including my editor, my terminal, and my browser (Chromium build with ozone enabled).

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Now, all that said, if you've tried recently and it's still not there, I absolutely get it. But I think it'll move faster than you expect. 4 years ago I certainly wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me I'd like Wayland enough to bother writing out this whole comment chain :D

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michaelmrose5y ago· 1 in thread

> Global hotkeys work pretty much everywhere

To be clear you mean that can in your config file or settings menu bind a hotkey to run a particular action if and only if that action can be specified by a particular command line operation.

This is indeed my preferred way to specify such things I like that it is centrally managed and if the application developer lets you interact with the program that way it is quite powerful.

Is this possible on gnome wayland or just under sway?

There is another form of global hotkey configuration wherein the app lets you specify a global command for an operation that may be internally specified and may not be provided via a cli interface and this functionality will never work by design.

sjy5y ago

The GNOME Settings app allows you to assign global hotkeys under Wayland using the normal GUI [1]. Not sure about configuring those hotkeys in a config file like i3/sway, I assume it’s some dconf thing.

[1] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-shor...

CarelessExpert5y ago

> Now, all that said, if you've tried recently and it's still not there, I absolutely get it.

Unfortunately I tried it... I'd estimate two months ago (I switched back to Debian testing from Ubuntu a couple of months back and decided to give Wayland a shot now that it's the default).

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