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What are some things X11 can do that Wayland still can't? (piefed.zip)
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The biggest thing I can think of is that X11 is more flexible when it comes to specifying custom resolutions; which some people use to output 240p on CRT TVs for emulation. AFAIK, there is currently no real equivalent for xrandr on any Wayland compositor.

I've also noticed that Grsync's password prompt is broken on Wayland. Thankfully, it has a feature that lets you preview the command it's about to run, so that you can copy and paste it into a terminal.

Being a KDE user on EndeavourOS, I use Wayland everyday. I switched over a few years ago for Waydroid, but now X11 isn't even an option for me with the current release of KDE.

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[–] BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Birdtray gave up on me when I last upgraded the system, so I switched to Betterbird. Even though it feels like buggier Thunderbird, they at least have somewhat fuctional tray icon.

I blame Mozilla for not supporting Linux for so long.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I blame Mozilla for not supporting Linux for so long.

what do you mean by this?

[–] BiscuityCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe this is the original ticket that requested implementation of a tray icon in Linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18732. It was requested 27 years ago and closed 2 years ago.

And it still doesn't work properly (for me it didn't work at all). And this is the current (still open) ticket https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1942125

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I guess someone needs to get up and get it done.