[DOCS] added several wayland tips #4795
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Docs themselves look great, thank you for that. Can you clean up the git history in the branch? |
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Some of these edits aren't deleting the old text, they're just added after them so we get repeated sections. I can highlight them later, difficult to do on my phone. |
I fixed the document. I sent it back to @holykremowka2137. They will have to push the changes to the repo. |
| And add this to your autostart script: | ||
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| .. code-block:: sh | ||
| dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP & |
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this is not guaranteed to work as you might also have to restart your systemd services to take effect, see step 5 here https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/wiki/%22It-doesn't-work%22-Troubleshooting-Checklist
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| from libqtile import qtile | ||
| if qtile.core.name == "wayland": | ||
| os.environ["XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP"] = "qtile:wlroots" |
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afaik XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP should be unneeded, and is also not standardized
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| Here is a write up on how to get screen sharing enabled in Wayland: | ||
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| To get screen sharing working on Qtile Wayland, make sure `xdg-desktop-portal`, `xdg-desktop-portal-gtk`, `xdg-desktop-portal-wlr`, `python-dbus-next`, and `wlroots` are installed on your system and add the following lines to your `config.py`: |
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dbus-next python dep is not needed, only qtile to be ran with dbus-run-session. Remove wlroots here as it's always needed
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| If you want to change keyboard configuration during runtime, you can use the | |||
| core's `set_keymap` command (see below). | |||
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| *It might be good to add something here about what works and what doesn't. For instance `"type:keyboard": InputConfig(kb_numlock=True)` doesn't work. In fact, it makes it so my numlock won't stay on.* | |||
| @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Qtile supports XWayland but requires that `wlroots` and `pywlroots` were built | |||
| with XWayland support, and that XWayland is installed on the system from | |||
| startup. XWayland will be started the first time it is needed. | |||
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| Edit: In order to have XWayland support in Qtile, `wlroots` and `pywlroots` must be built with XWayland support, and XWayland must be installed on the system at startup. It will be started the first time it is needed. | |||
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qtile does not have optional xwayland support afaik, you have to build with it
| GTK have a known issue of not recognizing setted variables. You can fix this by saving below code into a script in your script directory. Then you can just put the name of the script into your autostarting script. | ||
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| Edit: GTK has a known issue of not recognizing set variables. To fix this, create a script with the code below and save it in your script directory. Then add the script to your autostart script. For a GUI solution, the program `nwg-look` works well. |
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duplicate sentences here
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Thanks for this! I added some comments. FWIW I am currently writing a wayland guide, but some of the tips from this are not in there yet. If my nits are fixed in the review then this can be merged and I will adapt my guide to include all the tips from here too |
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This PR is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. Remove the |
Me and @wingej0 wrote several tips, so more people can switch to this backend