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A display server protocol that is intended to replace the X Window System. Wayland is a rewrite from the ground up of the Linux graphical display subsystem.

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I have a Vulkan application, I want to use iGPU(AMD) that has no monitors attached for Vulkan while running Wayland on dGPU(Nvidia). When I pick AMD physical device swapchain creation fails with [...
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I'm developing a remote cloud linux desktop application. Desktop Linux Client ----req----> on the Cloud such as Amazon. Client can change the ...
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I'm running mpv on a Wayland session with GNOME Shell. When hovering near the edges of the mpv window, the mouse cursor does not change, making it hard to see the window boundaries or know where to ...
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I compiled Rofi 2.0.0 from source on Debian 13 running GNOME Shell 48.4 with all dependencies, including Wayland and GTK 4: sudo apt install libwayland-dev wayland-protocols libgtk-4-dev libgdk-pixbuf-...
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So I ran yay and updated my stuff after a long time. The next day I login and the GDM login screen just freezes. Oh well. Time to ditch the login manager, I think. yay ly. Logging into Gnome on ...
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When I run notify-send in Debian 13 (GNOME 48), my notification shows an unwanted title like this: notify-sendJust now Here’s a screenshot for reference: I used the basic command: notify-send "...
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I'm using Firefox on KDE on Wayland. When I copy or drag-and-drop some texts or files from anywhere, suddenly various websites like Google Drive, Facebook or Claude display a full-screen drag-and-drop ...
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I recently upgraded from Debian 12 to Debian 13 (Trixie) and now using GNOME Shell 48.4 on Wayland. Before the upgrade, I knew that many classic X11 utilities wouldn’t work on Wayland, but I was ...
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I tried, out of curiosity, to set my keyboard layout on my Arch Linux tablet* with Gnome to one that appeared with a name like "A custom user-defined layout," which showed as being all blank ...
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I need to reduce the color depth from the default 10-bit to 8-bit in GNOME Wayland on the latest Debian. My inexpensive KVM flickers when using 10-bit color and prevents me from setting my dual ...
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I'm running KDE on Wayland. I've noticed that some Qt applications that render using OpenGL show significant color banding, as if they're running with less-than-24-bit color. What could be causing ...
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I'm using Debian/trixie (current stable) and heavily containerised projects / applications via LXC/incus into unprivileged containers; each having their own isolated UID/GID range. Most of the ...
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I have installed spotify from AUR on my arch linux install with sway. local/spotify 1:1.2.63.394-1 A proprietary music streaming service When I try to run it, it instantly crashes with exit code ...
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Majority of games don't benefit from fractional scaling, because they properly scale the UI on their own. However, fractional scaling often results in games rendering at higher resolution and being ...
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I've figured out a way to capture video on wayland (hyprland) with ffmpeg, but that method does not cover audio. Most people on wayland will be using pipewire, pipewire has a compatibility layer for ...
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