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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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Wayland: How to start graphic application from TTY without display manager?

I'm not sure I have the right approach but... With Xorg we could via xinit do things, but how to do that kind of thing with Wayland? I'm just trying to launch from a TTY a graphics application without loading gnome or KDE (or other)... I can not…
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How can I kill Wayland with a shortcut like ctrl+alt+backspace for X.Org

How to enable killing Xorg with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, how would I achieve the same thing with Wayland?
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Waydroid in Weston - All Newly Windows Open in Weston, Can Not Multitask (Linux Mint)

I am on Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon. Wayland is not there. So, to have an Android emulator, which is Waydroid, we have to first run Weston (=nested Wayland container) and after that we can run Waydroid, which will open in Weston window. This works…
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XWayland Broken

I have installed Visual Studio Code on Debian 13 (testing) with KDE/Wayland and it doesn't work properly. When using --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland it appears properly but crashes very often and is very glitchy at the…
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Every electron application blank screen when using Wayland

In programs made with Electron (eg MongoDB Compass / or my Electron program, etc.), the screen is black or white. This can be fixed via the "--disable-gpu-compositing" argument to each program. But it's too inconvenient. I put the argument in…
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How to force an application (Brave) to inhibit shorcuts (so to capture ALT-TAB) in Wayland?

I'm using Brave with PiKVM, which is a software allowing to connect from remote to PC. PiKVM has a web interface with remote desktop functionalities. If I go full-screen, system (Gnome+Wayland) asks if I want to allow Brave to inhibit shortcuts,…
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Preventing applications to start inside weston window

If I run weston inside a xsession, all applications started from the xsession now open inside the weston instance. How can I prevent this?
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Weston dimming screensaver

I found that it is possible to totally blank the screen in Weston with the idle parameter, and wake it up again with input. This is so far fine, but we are running a kiosk service, and want the screen to dim to save power, and when the screen is…
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Keystone correction in Wayland

I use my computer on a projector that does not have keystone correction. I have been using X and xrandr --transform to implement it: --transform a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i Specifies a transformation matrix to apply on the output. …
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