I cannot copy into the + or * register. :echo has('clipboard') from within Vim returns 0 meaning I don't have that feature flag, I don't want to recompile. I'm running wayland so I cannot use X1...

I am working on a small acceptance test for my OpenGL application written in C. So far, I'm only able to take screenshots and haven't found a way of simulating mouse and keyboard input on both Wayl...

I don't know how to set the position of the wayland window on the screen. It seems like it is being set somehow, because on my PC the window seems to be in a repetitive location. I tried the soluti...

From this article, it states that windows 11 natively supports running of X11 and wayland applications on wsl. I tried to do the same through a docker container, setting the environment variable DI...

On X11 I used to use xprop to get information about active windows but on Wayland that tool doesn't work anymore. There have been questions like this, or this one which ask basically the same quest...

I want to include Java GUI support on my system which has only wayland backend supported. I tried to include OpenJDK-7-jre package, but it seems to have X11 dependency. I compiled ‘Openjre-8’ packa...

Is it possible to have weston run without the toolbar at the top and change the background to black. So that when i have a script in init.d it calls weston first than my qt5 app? such as: weston...

Background: I'm working on a piece of software called ActivityWatch that logs what you do on your computer. Basically an attempt at addressing some of the issues with: RescueTime, selfspy, arbtt, e...

I'm trying to write an application that sends different dBus signals to different applications depending on what application is active. The idea is to pair it with Libinput-gestures, and allow per ...

So I've done some Google searching and this is something that has very little knowledge out there. What would be an effective and foolproof way of detecting whether X11 or Wayland is in use, prefer...

Is it possible for a c application using libwayland-client.so to get the name of the compositor / display server it opened a connection to (e.g. KWin, Sway, ...)? I fail to find it in the docs. For...

I am trying to run a test suite on GitHub Actions for a package that wraps utilities for calling the clipboard on a variety of platforms. While I have managed to get headless testing set up for a L...

It seems that Electron has not support Wayland yet. About Electron issue: Consider providing a build for Wayland Does anybody know how to compile Electron to support Wayland native? (step by step) ...

I've got the following error when trying to run android emulator from android studio. I'm on Manjaro (Arch linux) under a wayland graphic manager. WARN - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator t...

Pardon for the long introduction, but I haven't seen any other questions for this on SO. I'm playing with DRM (Direct Rendering Manager, a wrapper for Linux kernel mode setting) and I'm having dif...

I'm experimenting with wayland. You can start Gnome with X through startx command. Is there an way to start Gnome with wayland through some command? I would like to be able to run Gnome/X o...

I am porting some tests from X11 to Wayland and there is little to no information on how to list the available resolutions supported. All the examples that use Wayland and EGL manually speci...

Assuming I'm using intel's driver. Gnome-shell allows to rotate screens in Settings -> Display when using Xorg. Is it possible to rotate when using Wayland?

I noticed that my animation suffers from artifacts that look like missed vblanks. No visible tearing, but sometimes the frame halts for a split second and then visibly jumps. I decided to measure t...

Is there such a thing as a clipboard API in Wayland? Or where should I look to paste contents to the clipboard programmatically? I am running Fedora 24 on Wayland. Having a single clipboard if pe...

I'm trying to understand how selection(i.e. Primary and Clipboard in X) works in Wayland. I've read a bit on it, and I understand that Xorg has many(three) buffers used for managing selection and c...

There are dozens of questions on here asking how to create global keyboard bindings in a Wayland environment. Generally, the answer is "use your desktop environment" - an answer that is pretty much...

This video introduced to me the issues with X and it's replacement by the Wayland protocol. The adoption of the Wayland protocol appears to be growing over the years. My questions: Is tkinter a...

I create a Wayland shell surface to show "FPS info". Now, I would like to set fixed position for this wayland client while starting the application. How can I do this ?

I want to write a simple tool that will take screenshots at Wayland. Am I right in my understanding that it would be completely different from Xorg? Could anybody give me any examples?