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. Can I start using Wayland in 2026? (michael.stapelberg.ch)
   320 points by secure 4 days ago | 308 comments
2. Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it (old.reddit.com)
   24 points by tannhaeuser 8 days ago | 13 comments
3. QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 to a Wayland and XFCE Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
   9 points by todsacerdoti 12 days ago | 1 comments
4. Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
   5 points by signa11 29 days ago | 1 comments
5. XWayland is the bridging mechanism between legacy Xorg programs and Wayland (wiki.hypr.land)
   4 points by doener 6 days ago | discuss
6. Elementary OS 8.1 Switches over to Wayland Session by Default (www.phoronix.com)
   4 points by mikece 16 days ago | discuss
7. Minecraft, but It's a Wayland Compositor (www.youtube.com)
   4 points by willis936 16 days ago | discuss
8. GPU Memory Allocation Bugs with Nvidia on Linux and Wayland Adventures (nickjanetakis.com)
   3 points by nickjj 1 day ago | 2 comments
9. DMS Is a Desktop Shell for Wayland Compositors Built with Quickshell and Go (danklinux.com)
   3 points by kermatt 19 days ago | 2 comments
10. Jay – An i3 look and feel inspired Wayland WM written in Rust (github.com)
    3 points by foxrider 29 days ago | discuss
11. 'peck' – easy screenshots and screen captures on Wayland (github.com)
    2 points by codevogel_com 8 days ago | 1 comments
12. MangoWC – modern, lightweight, high-performance Wayland compositor built on dwl (mangowc.vercel.app)
    2 points by amadeuspagel 19 days ago | 1 comments
13. Waycraft: A Wayland Compositor with a Minecraft-like environment (codeberg.org)
    2 points by exploraz 22 days ago | 1 comments
14. Voxtype: Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors (github.com)
    1 points by todsacerdoti about 6 hours ago | discuss
15. Key repetition issue with Wayland input method protocols (2023) (www.csslayer.info)
    1 points by gudzpoz 3 days ago | discuss
16. Show HN: WindMouse Algorithm in Python
    3 points by AsfhtgkDavid 22 days ago | discuss
17. Show HN: A little utility to take screenshots and record screen on GNU/Linux (github.com)
    3 points by andreamonaco 23 days ago | discuss
18. Ask HN: How are you using Nvidia cards on Linux with its VRAM issues?
    2 points by nickjj 8 days ago | 4 comments
19. Show HN: GameTran – Your language assistant in computer games (github.com)
    2 points by ivanyu 24 days ago | discuss
20. Modern Land Surveying: Advancing Accuracy and Efficiency
    1 points by droneasaservice 2 days ago | discuss
21. Show HN: Digital Ski Bootfitter (wayfinderboots.com)
    2 points by brucebotsford 22 days ago | discuss
22. Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner (layandreas.github.io)
    142 points by wismwasm 1 day ago | 171 comments
23. Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
    610 points by todsacerdoti 12 months ago | 488 comments
24. Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)
    480 points by atlintots 3 months ago | 229 comments
25. XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support (ostechnix.com)
    264 points by alexzeitler over 1 year ago | 200 comments
26. WASM Wayland Web (WWW) (joeyh.name)
    254 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 213 comments
27. Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland (cosmoe.org)
    180 points by Bogdanp 7 months ago | 71 comments
28. Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications (github.com)
    180 points by happy-dude over 1 year ago | 71 comments
29. KiCad and Wayland Support (www.kicad.org)
    170 points by xvilka 7 months ago | 228 comments
30. Improving cursor rendering on Wayland (blog.vaxry.net)
    163 points by moonleay almost 2 years ago | 127 comments
31. KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland (www.neowin.net)
    153 points by bundie 5 months ago | 76 comments
32. KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
    142 points by mikece about 1 month ago | 242 comments
33. Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session (github.com)
    124 points by anajimi 5 months ago | 52 comments
34. Dwl: Dwm for Wayland (codeberg.org)
    111 points by theycallhermax 6 months ago | 82 comments
35. Reassessing Wayland (dudemanguy.github.io)
    110 points by GalaxySnail 11 months ago | 59 comments
36. GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code (linuxiac.com)
    107 points by upofadown about 2 months ago | 185 comments
37. Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure (www.semicomplete.com)
    100 points by viraptor about 2 months ago | 93 comments
38. Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) (github.com)
    97 points by jarusll over 1 year ago | 43 comments
39. Godot 4.3 Game Engine to Feature Native Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
    96 points by AdmiralAsshat almost 2 years ago | 30 comments
40. Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023) (xmonad.org)
    95 points by clircle 4 months ago | 77 comments
41. 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server (sourceforge.net)
    93 points by Tiberium over 1 year ago | 96 comments
42. Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
    85 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | 111 comments
43. IntelliJ IDEs supports Wayland now (blog.jetbrains.com)
    81 points by nitinreddy88 over 1 year ago | 23 comments
44. Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (hypr.land)
    77 points by AbuAssar 5 months ago | 78 comments
45. Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living (rykarn.se)
    74 points by junkblocker 4 months ago | 73 comments
46. 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
47. Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox (labwc.github.io)
    72 points by NeutralForest about 1 year ago | 16 comments
48. Project Wayfield – The JDK Wayland Desktop on Linux [video] (inside.java)
    70 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 33 comments
49. Wayland Nvidia (kextcache.com)
    65 points by breve about 1 month ago | 110 comments
50. 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
51. Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging (www.phoronix.com)
    64 points by voxadam about 1 year ago | 30 comments
52. Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead) (www.collabora.com)
    63 points by mfilion almost 2 years ago | 1 comments