Post #3325584

2026-06-15 13:03 UTC

A year ago I got a new PC, installed Ubuntu 24.04 which defaults to Wayland, and installed discord. Push to talk wouldn’t work unless discord had mouse focus. I spent a few hours researching and trying different things before switching to X11 where it just immediately works. Tell me more about how polished Wayland is.

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@KianaTabion@lemmy.today 2026-06-15 14:30

Fam, if I may, I’ll be a bit abrasive and blunt for the sake of brevity. So, without further ado. Ubuntu 24.04 (I’ll assume this is on GNOME.) First of, in terms of Wayland development, that build is from the Bronze Age. The associated issue tracker has been closed since last year, even if you don’t like the solution GNOME has come up with. Which, gets us to the second point; please don’t blame the Wayland ecosystem as a whole whenever you find a fault within a Wayland compositor. If, instead, you would have been on KDE Plasma back then, you’d have found that PTT was supported. Even if it was basically a hack for the sake of UX. Thankfully, KDE Plasma has recently merged a proper implementation that’s slated for its 6.7 release. I’ll grant you that the Wayland ecosystem hasn’t fully matured yet. But it’s undeniable that it already provides a better experience than its predecessor for the vast majority of users.

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@edinbruh@feddit.it 2026-06-15 14:52

That is a feature. Allowing arbitrary programs to read any key press is how you get keyloggers. Wayland has a protocol to request reading keys out of focus (which will ask the user for permission, as opposed to just read it like on xorg). If the program was running in xwayland (which it probably was) of course it won’t use that protocol, and will just try to read it X11 style. In some DEs (KDE) you can select if X11 apps are allowed to read keys. “I switched to X11 and it immediately works”. I’ll give you another tip: if you run chmod 777 -R / the file manager stops pestering about permissions and it immediately works.

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