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 I get the sentiment that X11 is an outdated standard, because it is.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

EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log

🦕 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

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

KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support

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

Mansardo Jamada

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

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

EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log

If #KDE discontinues #X11 i'll be forced to change desktop environments or just run outdated software. Seems moving to TDE https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ was not such a bad idea after all...
Trinity Desktop Environment

#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... :)

home: services: Add home-autorandr-launcher-service-type.

* gnu/home/services/desktop.scm (home-autorandr-launcher-configuration) (home-autorandr-launcher-service-type): New variables; (home-autorandr-launcher-shepherd-service): New procedure; * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Document it. Change-Id: I31880ded78647bc66d8fd7fd18136f2cb315b67b ...

Codeberg.org
🌗 EX-11:為 Plasma 最後一個支援 X11 的版本做好準備
➤ 告別 X11,KDE Plasma 全面邁向 Wayland 時代
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
歷經 15 年的過渡期,KDE 開發團隊正式宣告將於 Plasma 6.8 版本中完全移除對 X11 會話的支援,全面轉向 Wayland。作者 David Edmundson 指出,隨著超過 95% 的 Plasma 6.6 用戶已遷移至 Wayland,維護兩套衝突的程式碼路徑已失去意義。儘管屆時將移除所有 X11 相關程式碼並取消登入介面的 X11 選項,但 XWayland 將持續運作以確保舊版 X11 應用程式能正常執行,且此變動不會回溯影響舊版 Plasma。官方鼓勵目前仍依賴 X11 的用戶,在 Plasma 6.7 釋出後的這段過渡期內儘速回報問題,以確保未來的系統轉換能順利銜接。
+ 終於等到這一天了!長期維護兩套系統對開發者來說簡直是惡夢,全面轉向 W
#KDE #Plasma #Linux #Wayland #X11 #開源軟體
EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log

🚀🔧 Ah, another thrilling saga from the land of #WordPress musings and emoji-fueled #KDE escapades! Our hero valiantly documents how to prepare for the cataclysmic end of #X11 in a post destined to be read by all three of his blog's faithful followers. 😜📉
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/ #Endgame #Blogging #Emoji #HackerNews #ngated
EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log

EX-11: Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson's Web Log

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

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