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Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit by pmoriarty on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:31AM (#26003035)
It's a couple of years old, but this post on "Why I'm not going to switch to Wayland yet."[1] summarizes some of the concerns I have about switching to Wayland:

"at the moment there are several types of applications that not only don't work in wayland, but would be very difficult, or impossible to work natively in all major wayland compositors.

Examples (in order of importance to me):

  * Programmatic output configuration (xrandr, arandr, etc.)
  * CLI clipboard access (xsel, xclip)
  * Third party app launcher/window switcher (rofi, dmenu, albert, docky).
  * Clipboard managers (parcellite, klipper, Gpaste, clipman, etc.)
  * Third party screen shot/capture/share (shutter, OBS, ffmpeg, import, peek, scrot, VNC, etc.)
  * Color picker (gpick, gcolor3, kcolorchooser)
  * xdotool
Until Wayland has all these (and more) and they are as stable and feature-rich as the existing apps on X, I will not willingly switch to Wayland.

PS: ydotool has been touted as an equivalent of xdotool, but ydotool has only a tiny fraction of the features of xdotool.

And it's unlikely that it'll get much better any time soon, as its README says:

"Since Jun, 2019, I have little time to maintain this project"

wtype is supposed to be another equivalent to xdotool, but it has even less features than ydotool.

If the rest of Wayland's X equivalents as feature poor as these, I don't hold out much hope for Wayland in the near future.

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/85q78y/why_im_not_...

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Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit by popcornarsonist on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:34PM (#26003896) 

  * It's not exactly the same, but I use Kanshi for dynamic output configuration. https://github.com/emersion/kanshi
  * https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
  * https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
  * https://github.com/yory8/clipman
  * There's wlrobs for OBS. There's grim/slurp/wl-recorder for use outside of OBS.
  * You can use grim to grab a particular color on the screen, but the UI wouldn't be as good, of course.
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