As a daily Wayland user, I firmly stand against the removal of X11 support. Wayland has a lot of great features to it but not every application or game place nice with it. I get the sentiment that X11 is an outdated standard, because it is. However, there's a reason many people hate Wayland and it's not simple hate for change: there are still ways that X11 is better suited for users.

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/

#linux #wayland #x11 #desktopenvironment #de #kde #plasma #foss #opensource

🦕 KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland - Phoronix

｢ Plasma 6.8 aims to have all the X11-specific code removed while XWayland will continue to be supported for legacy X11 applications/games. Besides eliminating old X11-specific code, going Wayland-exclusive will allow them to open up more performance optimizations and other enhancements ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Wayland-Ex-X11

#kde #wayland #x11 #opensource

Need to use an ‘input method’ for Japanese characters, but said ‘input method’ forces only a single keyboard layout on the system level, so I can no longer type Czech characters using Alt Gr on the Czech layout without first turning off the option that adds Esperanto characters to Alt Gr on the first system keyboard layout. 

Incidentally, I can add another system keyboard layout in KDE, but it’s automatically deleted on startup. My solution would be to write a script which either turns the Esperanto characters on/off or adds a keyboard layout, but it seems like there is nothing like setxkbmap under Wayland, so my best option would be poking at KDE settings with severely underdocumented command-line tools. 

Why does technology always have to turn ugly?

#lang_en #KDE #setxkbmap #technology #Wayland #X11

EX-11: Prepping for #Plasma’s Last #X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/

#autorandr is a utility program that lets you save and select various display configurations. E.g. a *mobile mode* where you use the laptop's built-in monitor and a *docked mode* where you use an external monitor.

autorandr-launcher is a little daemon which listens for #X11 RandR events and automatically applies the appropriate autorandr display profile when a change is detected (e.g. when a monitor is plugged in or unplugged).

Here's a tiny little PR to add an autorandr-launcher service to #Guix:

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/9036

In case any good soul wants to review it... :)

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/

#HackerNews #KDE #Plasma #X11 #Last #Release #OpenSource #Linux #Desktop

Hmm ... so this blog article has amplified my suspicion and past experience, that the Wayland project is full of elitist ableist asshats (^) ...

First inkling was trying to drive a KDE Wayland system with nothing but a mouse and onscreen keyboard for a friend. had to revert to an older Debian derived OS, and onboard which while hacky and clunky, at least that worked (mostly).

but those with needs greater than the general population are basically being 'Functionally' ignored and excluded by Wayland development practice.

X11 was far from perfect but it was at least inclusive regards the ways and means for a much wider access scope, than just the able bodied.

Seems the long slow death of X11 will result in deliberate shuttering of those who are not as capable.

See this:

https://nocoffei.com/?p=451

#Wayland #Elitist #Ableist #AssHats #Shame #X11 #WindowManagers #Linux