Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End"

Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by lousken on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @11:09AM (#45824526)

Wayland is still years away from usable state. You still can't even autotype keepassxc passwords and there are still no good solutions for remote desktop sessions (at least I have not found any last time i checked)

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by bigyabai on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:56PM (#45825810)

Those are fair criticisms, but neither one of them is a dealbreaker for any OS that I use on a regular basis. As such, most Wayland sessions are perfectly usable to me.

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by lousken on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:51PM (#45827073)

I am saying that, because it is a dealbreaker for me, as I have to login tens of times every day across different companies. Wish Yubikey and webauthn was implemented by everyone already

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by saturn_vk on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:05PM (#45828011)

> Wayland is still years away from usable state

… for you, surely. I’m sure there are some wayland users.

> autotype keepassxc passwords

What is that?

> remote desktop sessions

IIRC, gnome comes with an ootb RDP solution that, last I tried, worked as advertised. I’m not a big remote user though.

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by throwaway7489 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @05:08AM (#45833470)

> What is that?

I believe they refer to KeePassXC's autofill feature, which autotypes credentials into other applications. I've never used this in X and won't use it on Wayland, as I prefer to keep all applications isolated.

I Ctrl-C to copy and then manually paste the password. Wayland is better for this method because I know the clipboard is cleared once I close KeePassXC.

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by lousken on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:42AM (#45866342)

That's nice, if you don't have to always copy both the username and password or if you don't have custom autotype set up. Also I disagree, if I do not trust my password manager, I should not be using it at all.

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by sharts on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:18AM (#45831768)

Perhap Claude, Gemini, and Codex will finally make things come along sooner than later

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Re:Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" by ranger_danger on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:27PM (#45851934)

rustdesk supports wayland

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