Going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39342270

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    16 hours ago

    Well shit. I would like this better if more things played nicely with wayland, as wayland itself seems pretty great. Remmina for example can’t do multi-monitor outside of x/xwayland for example and this is breaking for me when i remote into my work computer.

    I realize that this is the fault of remmina and not wayland. Any RDP client recommendations that work on wayland for this?

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I honestly don’t know a tonne about the topic. If you happen to know, what exactly is xwayland and how would I go about implementing it (on debian 13). Curious if it would have ramifications for my system for better or worse, might be interested in trying it out until other software can get caught up with wayland proper.

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 hours ago

          XWayland is the compatibility layer in Wayland to run X11 applications within Wayland. I’ve never had an issue with it on any application that still used X11 and it’s pre-installed, so you don’t have to do anything, if you’re running Wayland.

          • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Ahh I see. Doesn’t quite solve all of my problems then, but at least it’s doing some heavy lifting already without me knowing. Thanks!

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I did earlier and it bugged out for me for some reason and was unusable. Possibly a config problem, will try later on when I have a bit more time.

    • booglefloop@lemmy.ml
      14·
      15 hours ago

      RDP has been my biggest gripe moving to wayland for my workstations at work. I’ve done a ton of looking and found nothing that actually replaces the extremely mature RDP environment that X has. For the life of me I cant get the built in KDE remote desktop to work.

      In the meantime since everyone is just moving forward with wayland without much for remote desktop support I just use a virtual X session over xrdp.