Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) on Nostr: I sometimes in our modern #wayland world miss a tool or two from the X11 days – ...
I sometimes in our modern #wayland world miss a tool or two from the X11 days – like an equivalent for "setxkmap" to quickly change the keyboard layout, no matter what wayland compositor you are using.
But no, I definitely don't miss anything of what this new project from the AppImage creator wants to provide:
https://github.com/probonopd/wayland-x11-compat-protocolsTo quote: "'"Allow applications and desktop environments to do what they can do in X11...
Capture the screen (without Pipewire, Portals, etc.) […]"'"
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