albertlauncher/albert#309 ❌ broken since ('This is a security measure, but has the side effect of preventing applications from registering their own global hotkeys') YouTube video by.❌ broken ('Redshift does not support Wayland since it offers no way to adjust the color temperature').In my opinion this is a showstopper for running a Wayland session.' However, there is a workaround: 'AppImages which ship just the XCB plugin will automatically fallback to running in xwayland mode' (see below). 'This affects proprietary applications, FLOSS applications bundled as appimages, FLOSS applications bundled as flatpaks and not distributed by KDE and even the Qt installer itself. ❌ broke AppImages that don't ship a special Wayland Qt plugin.Wayland breaks AppImages that don't ship a special Wayland Qt plugin As a result, global menus now need _KDE_NET_WM_APPMENU_OBJECT_PATH which only the KDE platformplugin sets, leaving everyone else in the dark

Good news: According to this report global menus now work with KDE platformplugin as of 4/2022 Wayland breaks global menus with non-KDE Qt platformplugins ('When using the Plasma-Wayland session, the global menu does not work.') KDE had to do additional work to work around it. no global menu on Wayland, I thought, not without significant re-engineering effort'). ('it uses global window IDs, which don’t exist in a Wayland world. Wayland broke global menus with KDE platformplugin

❌ broken since ('because the lack of the Gtk+ Wayland support for the Global Menu').

Wayland breaks Gnome-Global-AppMenu (global menus for Gnome) This is an X11 application, and as such will not function 100% onĭistributions that default to using Wayland instead of Xorg. Wayland breaks automation software sudo pkg install p圓7-autokey

probonopd/Zoom.AppImage#8 ❌ broken since Zoom: 'You need PulseAudio 1.0 and above to support audio share' on a system that uses pipewire-pulseaudio.

('Can not start share, we only support wayland on GNOME with Ubuntu (17, 18), Fedora (25 to 29), Debian 9, openSUSE Leap 15, Arch Linux').

flathub/us.zoom.Zoom#22 Zoom ❌ broken since at least.

To be retested with jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage. NOTE: As of 2023, it has been stated that Jitsi now uses WebRTC and as long as the browser supports that, screen sharing should work.

jitsi/jitsi-meet#6389 ❌ broken since ('Closing since there is nothing we can do from the Jitsi Meet side.') See? Wayland breaks stuff and leaves application developers helpless and unable to fix the breakage, even if they wanted.

Wayland breaks screen sharing applications Peek, a screen recording tool, has been abandoned by its developerdue to a number of technical challenges, mostly with Gtk and Wayland ('Many of these have to do with how Wayland changed the way applications are being handled') There is a workaround for OBS Studio that requires a obs-xdg-portal plugin (which is known to be Red Hat/Flatpak-centric, GNOME-centric, 'perhaps' works with other desktops).('Wayland is unsupported at this time', 'There isn't really something that can just be easily changed. obsproject/obs-studio#2471 ❌ broken since at least.Wayland breaks everything and then expects others to fix the wreckage it caused on their own expense. Let's see how it looks in a year or two.') - This is the key problem. ('I have now decided that there will be no Wayland support for the time being. vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG#51 ❌ broken since at least.❌ ('I am no longer interested in working with things like ffmpeg/wayland/GNOME's screencaster or solving the issues related to them or why they don't work').MaartenBaert/ssr#431 ❌ broken since, no resolution ('I guess they use a non-standard GNOME interface for this').Wayland breaks screen recording applications Or force more Red Hat/Gnome components (glib, Portals, Pipewire) on everyone! DO NOT INSTALL WAYLAND! Let Wayland not destroy everything and then have other people fix the damage it caused. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks only seem to care about Gnome, and alienating everyone else in the process.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to 'just work' without the need for adjustments, then you may be better of not using Wayland at this point. Tl dr: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet, and maybe never will.

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