Questions tagged [wayland]
Wayland is a protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a reference implementation of the protocol in C language. It was initially authored by Kristian Høgsberg as a replacement for the X Window System.
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Why is Wayland better?
As recently announced by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu will be moving towards using Wayland as its display manager.
What are biggest differences between X11 and Wayland? Why will Wayland make Ubuntu ...
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How can I tell if I am running Wayland?
Wayland is the default display server for Ubuntu 17.10 "on supported systems". But how can I tell if my platform is supported and I'm actually using Wayland?
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How do you switch from Wayland back to Xorg in Ubuntu 17.10?
Some of my applications don't work on Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland. How can I switch back to Xorg?
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Why don't gksu/gksudo or launching a graphical application with sudo work with Wayland?
I installed Ubuntu 17.10. Now I am having trouble with gksu:
$ gksu -dg synaptic
No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-HgUjgQ/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID: gksu/synaptic/8760-0-alex-XPS-15-...
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How do I use the X window manager instead of Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04?
I read posts that said you can switch at the login screen. But I have no option to switch there.
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Microsoft Teams and Wayland - will screen sharing be fixed in 21.04?
I've googled until my fingers bled, but unfortunately all I end up finding is either posts by Microsoft saying "Teams works on Linux" and posts in help forums that just end up telling people ...
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How can I tell if an application is using XWayland?
I'm troubleshooting some issues to do with multiple monitors and HiDPI on Wayland. I've learnt from online resources that applications on XWayland may not handle this use-case as expected. So now I ...
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Screen sharing with Wayland
How is the status of screen sharing on Wayland? Recently this has become an essential topic for people who telecommute.
I am trying to share my screen on Google Chrome 88 with WebRTC and I run GNOME 3....
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Equivalent to xdotool for Wayland
I'm looking for a solution working in Wayland to get mouse position, move it and click inside a bash script, all things xdotool can do for X server.
xdotool getmouselocation
is still working, but
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Maximized windows get under the Dock in Ubuntu 22.04
After upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 maximized windows are not correctly restored - they get under the Dock when Ubuntu comes back from standby (maybe also after locking screen?).
If I ...
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How to disable GUI on boot in 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)?
It appears that sudo systemctl disable gdm3 && sudo systemctl disable gdm do not work in 18.04 to disable the windowing system at bootup. What's the method for doing this now?
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Wayland how to set a custom resolution
Old title - "change resolution to 1280x1024 using xrandr gives: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)"
I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 and have a ...
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Does Wayland have an equivalent of xrandr for changing brightness and color temperature?
xrandr can be used to change the display brightness using the command line. For example,
xrandr --output VGA-1 --brightness 0.4
Wayland does not support xrandr. Is there any similar tool in Wayland ...
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How do I make my display grayscale?
After reading this article from the the New York Times and others like it, I would like to make my screen black and white/grayscale. I am on Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome 3.26.2 without X11. I am also on a ...
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Is there a screen recorder for GNOME with Wayland?
I am using Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS. I have spent a lot of time searching for Screen Recorders for the Ubuntu GNOME Wayland.
I have tried several Screen Recorders such as Simple Screen Recorder and ...
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How to prevent the screen lock while watching video (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime) in Ubuntu 17.10
In earlier Ubuntu versions like 16.04 and 17.04 while watching YouTube videos in full-screen mode, the screen would not get locked automatically.
In Ubuntu 17.10 while watching videos in browser, ...
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Ubuntu on Wayland
So, recently I noticed a settings like icon next to the sign in button on the login screen. Upon clicking it I am presented with two options:
Ubuntu
Ubuntu on wayland
Why has this suddenly appeared?
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External monitor randomly goes black on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I have a really irritating issue where my external monitors randomly goes black for a few seconds and then returns. This happens every other minute, but sometimes i can sit for 30 minutes before it ...
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Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 (IntelGPU)
I sadly do not have the choice of starting a Gnome with Wayland session when logging in (no gear icon showing).
Using a Thinkpad with integrated Intel GPU, WaylandEnable option in /etc/gdm3/custom....
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When will Wayland support restarting the shell by command?
On Xorg I found that doing ALT + F2 and then doing r would work in order to restart gnome-shell after an update, however with Wayland on Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 and GNOME 3.24 I have found that I get a ...
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How to change 2-finger touchpad scroll speed on Ubuntu 22.04
Is there a way to change how quickly (or how far) a laptop touchpad scrolls?
This question is specific to 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). Although there are many similar questions, none asks specifically ...
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IntelliJ crashing since latest update
This morning IntelliJ got updated from version 2023.3 to 2024.1 and since then it doesn't work anymore. I am using Ubuntu 22.04.
When I try to run it, it opens for a few seconds, and then ALL ...
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How to set per-monitor scaling on Wayland?
I understand from here and other places that Wayland offeres per-monitor scaling settings to handle cases such as a HiDPI laptop screen with a low DPI external monitor (my situation). I installed ...
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Screen sharing under wayland
Has anyone got screensharing working under wayland using pipewire?
As far as I can tell, it should be possible to share the screen from Chrome / Chromium after installing the pipewire package and ...
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How to configure touchpad tap sensitivity?
Since I upgraded to 17.10, touchpad tap sensitivity is too low, and frequently misses my taps. I know that the system has figured out that my Lenovo Yoga 2 has a Synaptics touchpad:
$ sudo evtest
No ...
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What is the equivalent of xkill on wayland?
Xkill is a utility program distributed with the X Window System that instructs the X server to forcefully terminate its connection to a client, thus "killing" the client.[1] When run with no ...
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How do I access console from GDM ? (wayland)
When on GDM login screen, Ctrl+Alt+F3 ... F7 does not work.
After logging into GNOME desktop, then Ctrl+Alt+F1 will bring me to GDM, F2 back to GNOME, and F3 to F7 to a TTY terminal.
But before I log ...
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Xrandr equivalent in Wayland? [duplicate]
I've started testing different DEs for Ubuntu because of the Unity news last week. Some of them use Wayland and I like them, but since sometimes I use xrandr to emulate a higher-than-native resolution ...
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How to permanetely disable Wayland
I know I can stop using Wayland if I log out and change the setting, but I don't want to keep having to log out each time Ubunutu updates. Every time Ubuntu gets updated it enables Wayland again. I ...
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Wayland equivalent to "xset led"
I have been using Ubuntu since 16.04, with the CM Storm keyboard. When using this keyboard on Windows, pressing the Scroll Lock key enables/disables the backlight.
Previously on Ubuntu, the commands ...
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Different scaling with dual monitor setup: slow in x11, blurry in wayland
I am using Ubuntu 20.04. I just got a new 4k monitor which I am now using together with the previous 1080 one.
The 4k display is unreadable at 100% scaling, so at first, I turned on fractional scaling ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 is not running Wayland
I am experiencing some strange problems in Ubuntu 17.10. At the login screen I am missing the small icon that allows changing between X and Wayland. In fact, the default installation is running X and ...
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Chrome Wayland Scaling Issue
I'm running Gnome 3.24 on Ubuntu 17.04, linux kernel 4.12.0-041200-generic, on a Dell XPS 13 with skylake i7.
The laptop has a 3200x1800 display and plugged in is a 25" Dell ultrasharp at 2560x1440.
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Ubuntu 22.04 can't suspend
I updated to Ubuntu 22.04 and there is something wrong when I suspend my computer: I have that screen:
I'm using NVIDIA driver (nvidia-driver-470) and I'm on X11 and since the update I can't switch ...
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How do I enable Wayland on Ubuntu 21.10 (NVIDIA)?
I installed Ubuntu 21.10 on my laptop today, but I'm still not seeing the option on the login screen to use Wayland instead of X11. I've really been looking forward to getting GNOME 40 with multi-...
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How can I automatically resize a window to 1/4 of the screen and snap it to a corner in Ubuntu 22.04?
I wrote this popular answer for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, but now it won't work on Ubuntu 22.04 due to Wayland.
https://github.com/negesti/gnome-shell-extensions-negesti#wayland--wnck:
Because of this ...
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how does X11 forwarding with Ubuntu 17.10/Wayland?
I use Ubuntu 17.04. I use ssh with X11 forwarding all the time to display GUI programs running on my server locally on my computer.
Ubuntu 17.10 offers Wayland instead of X11 and I've read through a ...
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Keyboard shortcut for rotating Ubuntu 17.10 Screen
I somehow rotated the Ubuntu 17.10 screen so it ended up upside down (I think I accidentally triggered a keyboard shortcut). I could not get it to rotate back by clicking the screen rotate button in ...
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18.04: How to get Wayland back after upgrade to 18.04?
Since 17.10 I got familiar with Wayland and I really need the per-monitor-scaling!
How can I start a wayland session after dist-upgrade to Bionic? There is no option in GDM available out-of-the-box.
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How can I get the Wayland Application ID (WM_CLASS equivalent) for a running application?
To get Gnome-Shell to correctly detect that an application is already running I need to specify the StartupWWClass in the desktop file. On X11 this is easy to get using xprop (to get WM_CLASS), but on ...
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Slow recovering from lock screen Ubuntu 18.04
I addition to being aesthetically pleasing, I am quite pleased with some of the new features in 18.04. However, what I am not quite impressed with is how slow it is recovering from the lock screen. ...
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"failed to enable link training" when resuming from suspend
I'm on a Dell XPS 7590 running a fresh installation of Ubuntu 21.04. I'm running Wayland.
When resuming from suspend, I frequently receive a black screen which only contains this error:
i915 0000:00:...
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Which VNC Servers work with Ubuntu 20.04 and Wayland
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu Desktop from 18.04 to 20.04 and have been accessing it via SSH. But, some of the scripts that I want to run require an actual desktop with a terminal. I've used VNC ...
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How to disable wayland in 17.10 in gdm3 login screen
I just installed ubuntu 17.10.
I'm using a Ryzen 1200 CPU and an RX-560 GPU with a 2580x1080 60Hz monitor.
The monitor is connected to the GPU through an HDMI cable.
When I'm using the native ...
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How to get a Wayland session in Kubuntu?
Ubuntu 17.04 comes with a wayland display server session. I've used and seen what it can do, I've used it before by selecting it from the lock screen just like selecting Unity 8 session, with a gear ...
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Will Wayland have network transparency?
The Xorg server/client architecture allows for network transparency which means it is possible to start x-clients on a remote machine and display the GUI on the local machine (i.e. via x-forwarding by ...
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How do I adjust touchpad scroll sensitivity in Wayland/Gnome?
Touchpad scrolling is extremely sensitive in Wayland/libinput. The touchpad controls in system settings are very limited. Does anyone know how to adjust this?
My thinkpad has a clickpad (the worst ...
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Is spice-vdagent required for Wayland?
I noticed the following message in syslog:
Cannot access vdagent virtio channel
/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
I am running Ubuntu 18.10 on Wayland, so could I delete spice-vdagent? And if ...
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Record screen, microphone and web camera in Ubuntu 17.10 (Wayland Session)
I want to record my screen, audio and webcam in Ubuntu 17.10.
I have tried the following software (from this thread How can I record my screen?):
gtk-recordmydesktop: Missing web camera support
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Mouse pointer does not adjust to context on screen
My mouse pointer does not change shape depending on what's under it on the screen. Strangely, this seems to happen only in Firefox and Chrome, but maybe I simply haven't noticed this problem in other ...
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