The biggest thing I can think of is that X11 is more flexible when it comes to specifying custom resolutions; which some people use to output 240p on CRT TVs for emulation. AFAIK, there is currently no real equivalent for xrandr on any Wayland compositor.

I’ve also noticed that Grsync’s password prompt is broken on Wayland. Thankfully, it has a feature that lets you preview the command it’s about to run, so that you can copy and paste it into a terminal.

Being a KDE user on EndeavourOS, I use Wayland everyday. I switched over a few years ago for Waydroid, but now X11 isn’t even an option for me with the current release of KDE.

  • redjard@reddthat.com
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    8 hours ago

    Is there an equivalent other than remote access?

    Yes, there is waypipe. Very close analog to ssh -X, arguably better. Even lets me access my local clipboard in wl-copy/wl-paste commands on the remote.
    It’s not part of ssh though, so needs to be installed on server and client.

    I found waypipe to be way more responsive than X11, and just … better somehow. More integrated into the other programs.

    When using it, take care that pam is enabled in sshd. Else it won’t initialize the proper xdg environment which wayland stuff doesn’t like.