Hackernews posts about Wayland

Wayland is a free and open-source display server protocol designed to replace X11 as the primary windowing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

1. KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
   142 points by mikece 17 days ago | 242 comments
2. GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code (linuxiac.com)
   107 points by upofadown 29 days ago | 185 comments
3. Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure (www.semicomplete.com)
   100 points by viraptor 27 days ago | 93 comments
4. Wayland Nvidia (kextcache.com)
   64 points by breve 9 days ago | 110 comments
5. KDE going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
   58 points by dualogy 14 days ago | 46 comments
6. Half of Linux Users Stick with X11, Despite Years of Wayland Being Forced (www.youtube.com)
   27 points by snvzz 9 days ago | 25 comments
7. Blender 5.0 Released with Better Vulkan Support, HDR on Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
   18 points by Bender 25 days ago | 1 comments
8. Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
   14 points by nateb2022 5 days ago | 2 comments
9. KDE going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
   12 points by todsacerdoti 17 days ago | discuss
10. KDE going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
    9 points by birdculture 16 days ago | 2 comments
11. KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only (lwn.net)
    9 points by Velocifyer 17 days ago | discuss
12. KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD (euroquis.nl)
    7 points by akagusu 26 days ago | discuss
13. Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
    5 points by signa11 4 days ago | 1 comments
14. Finally; a genuinely good GUI for NetworkManager on Wayland (github.com)
    3 points by cachebag 10 days ago | 1 comments
15. Scroll Wayland compositor stable version 1.12 (github.com)
    3 points by dawser 22 days ago | 1 comments
16. Jay – An i3 look and feel inspired Wayland WM written in Rust (github.com)
    3 points by foxrider 4 days ago | discuss
17. Enhancing Accessibility and Creative Tools in KDE Plasma Wayland (www.kdab.com)
    3 points by breve 12 days ago | discuss
18. DankMaterialShell: Desktop Shell for Wayland Compositors (github.com)
    2 points by fullmetalcasqet 26 days ago | discuss
19. Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor (github.com)
    1 points by doener 9 days ago | discuss
20. Niri Is a Pretty Cool Wayland Compositor (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by Babkock 23 days ago | discuss
21. sandwine 5.0.0 adds support for Wayland and PipeWire (github.com)
    1 points by spyc 29 days ago | discuss
22. Libinput 1.30 adds support for Lua plugins (lore.freedesktop.org)
    4 points by qrobit 18 days ago | discuss
23. EPA Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands (www.nytimes.com)
    3 points by JumpCrisscross 26 days ago | discuss
24. Swiss provider webland has been down for a week (status.webland.ch)
    2 points by sschueller 15 days ago | 1 comments
25. Researchers: An important wetland in Ghana is under siege (theconversation.com)
    1 points by PaulHoule about 20 hours ago | discuss
26. OpenAI: Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits (openai.com)
    12 points by wavelander 30 days ago | discuss
27. Anthropic's Vision Advantage Is a Lot Like Apple's from the 2010s (danielmiessler.com)
    2 points by wavelander 1 day ago | discuss
28. Catland, the Louis Wain Archive (catland.distin.org)
    2 points by graypegg about 3 hours ago | discuss
29. Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
    610 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 488 comments
30. Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)
    480 points by atlintots 2 months ago | 229 comments
31. XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support (ostechnix.com)
    264 points by alexzeitler about 1 year ago | 200 comments
32. WASM Wayland Web (WWW) (joeyh.name)
    254 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 213 comments
33. Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
    193 points by politelemon almost 2 years ago | 254 comments
34. Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland (cosmoe.org)
    180 points by Bogdanp 6 months ago | 71 comments
35. Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications (github.com)
    180 points by happy-dude over 1 year ago | 71 comments
36. KiCad and Wayland Support (www.kicad.org)
    170 points by xvilka 6 months ago | 228 comments
37. Improving cursor rendering on Wayland (blog.vaxry.net)
    163 points by moonleay over 1 year ago | 127 comments
38. KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland (www.neowin.net)
    153 points by bundie 4 months ago | 76 comments
39. Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session (github.com)
    124 points by anajimi 4 months ago | 52 comments
40. Dwl: Dwm for Wayland (codeberg.org)
    111 points by theycallhermax 5 months ago | 82 comments
41. Reassessing Wayland (dudemanguy.github.io)
    110 points by GalaxySnail 10 months ago | 59 comments
42. Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) (github.com)
    97 points by jarusll over 1 year ago | 43 comments
43. Godot 4.3 Game Engine to Feature Native Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
    96 points by AdmiralAsshat almost 2 years ago | 30 comments
44. Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023) (xmonad.org)
    95 points by clircle 3 months ago | 77 comments
45. 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server (sourceforge.net)
    93 points by Tiberium over 1 year ago | 96 comments
46. Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
    85 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | 111 comments
47. Wayland vs. X – Overview (wayland.freedesktop.org)
    84 points by hannofcart almost 2 years ago | 181 comments
48. IntelliJ IDEs supports Wayland now (blog.jetbrains.com)
    81 points by nitinreddy88 over 1 year ago | 23 comments
49. Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (hypr.land)
    77 points by AbuAssar 4 months ago | 78 comments
50. Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living (rykarn.se)
    74 points by junkblocker 3 months ago | 73 comments
51. XFCE 4.20 Aiming for Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)
    73 points by torstenvl almost 2 years ago | 78 comments
52. Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox (labwc.github.io)
    72 points by NeutralForest 11 months ago | 16 comments
53. Project Wayfield – The JDK Wayland Desktop on Linux [video] (inside.java)
    70 points by Tomte over 1 year ago | 33 comments
54. Wine 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit EXEsc on 64-bit-only xNix (& Wayland) (www.theregister.com)
    65 points by lproven almost 2 years ago | 15 comments
55. Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging (www.phoronix.com)
    64 points by voxadam about 1 year ago | 30 comments
56. Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead) (www.collabora.com)
    63 points by mfilion almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
57. Please Don't Promote Wayland (stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app)
    60 points by PKop 4 months ago | 84 comments
58. Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
    59 points by mmoya 6 months ago | 120 comments