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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Absolutely none. On my setup everything runs fine either natively or with Xwayland.
Yeah, I think my sway config is around five years old now. The Wayland experience hasn’t been entirely without warts, but as someone who kind of just uses the desktop to drive a browser and a bunch of terminals, there’s not a whole lot of problems to run into either.
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?
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https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html
Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.
I don’t think that was entirely serious…
New hyprland patch can do pretty much all the xdotool stuff since they added a send key to window thing
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 WMs in wayland have to be compositors.
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Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?
XFCE, mostly.
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.
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RustDesk on Wayland can’t run headless, which I need (unless they fixed already and I just haven’t noticed yet - I know they’ve been working on it!)
Yeah, Input-leap is the Barriers fork I was referring to. I need it to work on all platforms though, and I wasn’t able to get it working on macOS. I keep checking periodically tho (usually in response to posts like these - I wanna move Wayland like everyone else!)
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What about Deskflow? Worked pretty well for me.
Nice! DeskFlow seems like exactly what I was looking for as my Barrier replacement. I have an annoyance with Wayland where it won’t remember my preference to allow mouse/kb sharing, but more importantly IT WORKS, and better yet it’s an active project still. THANK YOU!
I’ll check it out, thanks!
Does input-leap do what you need? I control my testing mac at work with input-leap
I think Rustdesk for me as well. My main computer is a Windows laptop, but I use a few Linux laptops around the house to control it and others with Rustdesk. Alt+Tab works on the remote system in Gnome Classic (I think that’s what it’s called - says X11) but on the other options it performs switches locally only. Tested on Debian and Fedora.
The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.
RDP.
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RDP works on Wayland.
Not headless last I tried, unless that changed recently.
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.
autokey
I accomplish the same thing with compose sequences, and by binding a keyboard shortcut in my desktop to call a script with
wtype. It’s not a cross-compositor solution though, as you’d have to manually setup binds in each of them.I don’t see much hope for this one-to-one unfortunately.
Check out xremap https://github.com/xremap/xremap
ydotool iirc
Same camp as wtype, you have to bind something to exec it.
Stumpwm. The most ergonomic tiling window manager I know, fantastic configurability like emacs.
GPU screen recorder, the hotkeys dont work in Wayland
This one should be getting resolved soon! With the new global shortcut portal
Strange, they do for me on Plasma Wayland.
Depends on your desktop environment. Works on KDE.
Xfwm. Taskbars are now wayland, but don’t autohide without the compositor supporting it.
I need to force keepass and some other things to x11 mode so that autotype and window detection works.
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.I don’t have that variable set on my environment, but perhaps it’s due to my running PCSX2 as an AppImage?
I don’t have that variable set on my environment, but perhaps it’s due to my running PCSX2 as an AppImage?
True. AppImages are often convenient because they run w/o requiring any env settings.
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.
