Post #4327781
2026-08-01 18:37 UTC
KiCAD just ignoring Wayland has made it unusable in version 10. The 3D viewer just crashes, copying requires hammering CTRL+C until stuff is copied, repeated key input by holding a keyboard button just stops. It's extremely bad right now.
Let's see how long they can ignore Wayland until just every distribution moved away from X11.
edit: What I mean by "ignore": https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/
edit2: Launching it with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb seems to at least solve the constant crashing 🤞
Replies (2)
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@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social 2026-08-02 03:29
@G33KatWork@infosec.exchange I’m a pedestrian Linux desktop user, just generic Ubuntu, and I have no clue how Wayland is supposed to be useful for me?
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@ixs@mastodon.bawue.social 2026-08-02 07:26
@G33KatWork@infosec.exchange KiCAD live CD coming when? Ich erinnere mich mit Freuden an die gute alte Zeit, als zum Beispiel die Summer Games Diskette mit den CGA Farben nicht von DOS aus gestartet wurde, sondern ihren eigenen Bootloader mitbrachte.