I'm testing #plasma #x11, to see if I can go around at least the internal keyb issue mentioned here https://en.osm.town/@mdione/114376988076035622 It's been a while, and I forgot its drawbacks: at least, scale is global and it can't only control external monitor's brightness. Long live #wayland.

For those #Linux users who use the #Sway window manager, have you tried Jay?

Jay just released 1.10.0.

https://github.com/mahkoh/jay/releases/tag/v1.10.0

Same vibes as Sway, but in Rust but without an attempt to maintain compatibility. For example, the config file is in TOML.

What Is #Wayland Cooking? Via @niccolove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSKu5ujHX8

#PSA: things that are still broken in #KDE #Plasma #Wayland session (minor) as of 6.3.4

• Windowshade only works with X11 windows
• No compatibility with wtype, and ydotool doesn't handle Unicode (or at least, not emoji) (So, now way to inject text into the active window, like for an emoji picker)
• No way (that I've found so far) to get the title/name of the active window
  • Correction: this is doable with kdotool: kdotool getwindowname $(kdotool getactivewindow)

That's it so far. I'll add to this if I find/remember anything else.

One more thing I've just observed: the mouse cursor doesn't disappear in LibreOffice Calc when just moving the selection cursor with the arrow keys. It does disappear (as I have specified in settings) when you actually type something in, though.

OK, speaking of #Valheim
I've been playing on #Linux, using #Steam, in #Sway (#Wayland, obv.) and while I have an #NVidia GPU, it doesn't seem to be getting used? Yes, it's an older GPU, but even at around 10FPS on the lowest quality video settings, I'm consistently only getting about 12 FPS, which... it's less fun. It's still playable for somebody like me who is an old and doesn't really do a lot of high-FPS gaming or whatever (as you can tell) but I'm genuinely wondering what I'm doing wrong.

Anybody have any tips? The usual googling turns up lots of "won't launch" but that isn't the problem I'm having.

#nwg-dock-hyprland 0.4.5

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-dock-hyprland/releases/tag/v0.4.5

LXQt 2.2.0 released with enhanced Wayland support, power profiles in LXQt Power Management, PCManFM-Qt improvements, QTerminal text rendering fixes

https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/

Ubuntu Plucky Puffin 25.04 is released and it's almost good.

I had to install Remmina from snap because the apt version stopped connecting to Windows.

The Nvidia 1060 is running on Wayland, performance is fine and all three screens work, but every 20 or 30 minutes the screen freezes and then after a minute or so, everything starts going again.

Here's hoping this is resolved in the next few days.

LXQt 2.2 Released with Enhanced Wayland Support | @linuxiac

｢ The team has addressed a long-standing quirk in multi-screen setups by adopting screen names instead of screen numbers — a necessary shift, as Wayland does not define a “primary screen” in the traditional sense ｣

https://linuxiac.com/lxqt-2-2-released-with-enhanced-wayland-support/

I'd be so happy whenever I get to use #Krunner reliably again on #KDE Plasma 6 like it was in Plasma 5.27 bro. Whenever I hop on the desktop on my #SteamDeck, I'm reminded by how gooood we ate previously on #X11 (AFAIC). Now on my Plasma 6 #Wayland desktop, I've to use the application launcher like a pleb - in some extremely rare cases I even have to launch apps from the terminal lmao.

RE: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/114364089340464610

TIL #AMD has #GPU (s) that have no hardware encoding capabilities whatsoever, i.e. their #RX6400. Yikes? Be careful when buying GPUs from AMD, I suppose.

It's one thing when people compare AMD GPUs with #NVIDIA's saying AMD's encoding prowess is inferior vs something like #NVENC, but to literally be unable to hardware transcode H264, HEVC, etc. as a modern GPU is insanely hilarious seeing that it's something even ancient GPUs and even iGPUs are capable of.

AMD CPUs? Solid, my last #Intel CPU was literally 7th gen - have gone through at least ~5 CPU upgrades since then. AMD GPUs? Stayed away from them and will continue to do so, even as a #Linux user. NVIDIA GPUs have been perfectly fine for me on #X11 before, and is perfectly usable (+ continually improving) on #Wayland now - Intel Arc GPUs are also affordable and perfect for my #homelab/servers.

https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/wiki/GPU-and-APU-HW-Features-and-Support#amd-gpu-multimedia-hardware-features

The latests release of Fedora Workstation adds enhanced video performance, offline speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) improvements. It also includes screen time tracking and break reminders, useful for ADHD sufferers and to reduce burnout.

Details: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-42/
Download: https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/

Argh. #KDE #Plasma's #Wayland session doesn't support wtype:

Compositor does not support the virtual keyboard protocol

That brings the completeness down to 90%. That's annoying.

Odd, #LibreOffice does not like having different scaling factors on two monitors.

I've got 1.8x scaling on my left (laptop) monitor and 1.0x on my right (HDMI). It looks like they're both getting 1.8x scaling, so everything is huge on my main (right) monitor.

I had to add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to the environment variables using the #KDE #Plasma menu editor to force it to run in X11 mode (XWayland), and now it's fine.

@AskLibreOffice @libreoffice

See: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141578

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7bfefoFOc

KDE vs GNOME on Wayland showdown... spoiler alert: things work pretty well these days.

#LXQt 2.2 Desktop Environment Released with Many #Wayland Improvements and Updated Componens https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-2-desktop-environment-released-with-many-wayland-improvements

@LXQt #Linux #OpenSource

Back to #Wayland and input methods.

What's your favorite input method?

Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter.

https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwri

Tested with #cosmic and #GTK .

This is just the beginning. Actually useful stuff is coming in the future. #Mobile keyboards, #Chinese input is what it's for:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/396