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. Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (isaacfreund.com)
   344 points by dpassens 24 days ago | 221 comments
2. Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)
   331 points by OJFord 11 days ago | 111 comments
3. Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? (omar.yt)
   328 points by omarroth 20 days ago | 482 comments
4. I hate: Programming Wayland applications (www.p4m.dev)
   175 points by dwdz 17 days ago | 180 comments
5. Krita 6.0 Released with Qt6 Port and Better Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
   39 points by doener 15 days ago | 5 comments
6. SteamOS 3.8 use KDE Plasma with Wayland as default (store.steampowered.com)
   20 points by Kholin 19 days ago | discuss
7. Tech Talk: How Electron went Wayland-native, and what it means for your apps (www.electronjs.org)
   10 points by mitchchn 22 days ago | 1 comments
8. KDE is getting support for the xx-fractional-scale-v2 Wayland protocol (www.neowin.net)
   4 points by bundie 3 days ago | discuss
9. Wawona: Native Wayland Compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android (github.com)
   3 points by auvi 4 days ago | discuss
10. KDE has implemented the new Wayland session restore protocol (www.neowin.net)
    3 points by bundie 10 days ago | discuss
11. Show HN: Doubletake – AirPlay Sender Implementation for Linux (X11 and Wayland) (github.com)
    2 points by omarroth 3 days ago | discuss
12. Show HN: TalkType – Offline Linux Speech-to-Text (Whisper, Wayland, AppImage) (github.com)
    2 points by ronb1964 5 days ago | discuss
13. Addressing global removal race in Wayland (blog.vladzahorodnii.com)
    2 points by fanf2 14 days ago | discuss
14. Addressing global removal race in Wayland (blog.vladzahorodnii.com)
    2 points by TangerineDream 15 days ago | discuss
15. Reka – window manager inside of Emacs for Wayland (code.tvl.fyi)
    2 points by smartmic 22 days ago | discuss
16. Show HN: Dynamod – Linux init with Erlang-style supervisor trees (github.com)
    4 points by SinisterMage2 9 days ago | 1 comments
17. Show HN: Kora – An AI-native OS layer written in 370k lines of Rust (intuitivecompute.com)
    4 points by jwatters 13 days ago | discuss
18. JetBrains kills X11 in WebStorm 2026.1 (www.neowin.net)
    2 points by bundie 13 days ago | 1 comments
19. Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions (www.science.org)
    21 points by Brajeshwar 19 days ago | 8 comments
20. American Prairie Grows Again with 2k+ Acres of Critical Wetland Habitat (americanprairie.org)
    3 points by gametorch 30 days ago | discuss
21. The Wayward Webring: a collection of link collections (waywardweb.org)
    2 points by gavmor 5 days ago | discuss
22. Semioscape.org: A Concept Wayfinder (semioscape.org)
    1 points by johanam 2 days ago | discuss
23. Wielandt's Characterization of the Gamma Function (www.johndcook.com)
    1 points by ibobev 20 days ago | discuss
24. Show HN: Scenia – open-source IT portfolio planning, runs in browser (scenia.website)
    2 points by WaylonKenning 17 days ago | discuss
25. Three zones of LLM competence for software engineers (mattbowen.net)
    1 points by mattbowen 22 days ago | discuss
26. The First Quantum Internet Protocol (qi.quantumcloud.one)
    2 points by wakanda-island 19 days ago | discuss
27. Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion (mort.coffee)
    610 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 488 comments
28. Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)
    480 points by atlintots 6 months ago | 229 comments
29. Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor (alexxcons.github.io)
    370 points by pantalaimon 2 months ago | 325 comments
30. Can I start using Wayland in 2026? (michael.stapelberg.ch)
    327 points by secure 3 months ago | 325 comments
31. XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support (ostechnix.com)
    264 points by alexzeitler over 1 year ago | 200 comments
32. WASM Wayland Web (WWW) (joeyh.name)
    254 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 213 comments
33. Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland (cosmoe.org)
    180 points by Bogdanp 10 months ago | 71 comments
34. Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications (github.com)
    180 points by happy-dude almost 2 years ago | 71 comments
35. KiCad and Wayland Support (www.kicad.org)
    170 points by xvilka 10 months ago | 228 comments
36. KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland (www.neowin.net)
    153 points by bundie 8 months ago | 76 comments
37. KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
    142 points by mikece 4 months ago | 242 comments
38. Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session (github.com)
    124 points by anajimi 8 months ago | 52 comments
39. Dwl: Dwm for Wayland (codeberg.org)
    111 points by theycallhermax 9 months ago | 82 comments
40. Reassessing Wayland (dudemanguy.github.io)
    110 points by GalaxySnail about 1 year ago | 59 comments
41. GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code (linuxiac.com)
    107 points by upofadown 5 months ago | 185 comments
42. Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure (www.semicomplete.com)
    100 points by viraptor 5 months ago | 93 comments
43. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com)
    97 points by doener 2 months ago | 43 comments
44. Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) (github.com)
    97 points by jarusll almost 2 years ago | 43 comments
45. Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023) (xmonad.org)
    95 points by clircle 7 months ago | 77 comments
46. 12to11 – run Wayland applications on an X server (sourceforge.net)
    93 points by Tiberium almost 2 years ago | 96 comments
47. Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
    85 points by MilnerRoute almost 2 years ago | 111 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 8 months ago | 78 comments
50. Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living (rykarn.se)
    74 points by junkblocker 7 months ago | 73 comments
51. Labwc: Wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland, inspired by openbox (labwc.github.io)
    72 points by NeutralForest over 1 year ago | 16 comments
52. Wayland Nvidia (kextcache.com)
    65 points by breve 4 months ago | 110 comments
53. Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Be Close to Merging (www.phoronix.com)
    64 points by voxadam over 1 year ago | 30 comments
54. Please Don't Promote Wayland (stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app)
    60 points by PKop 8 months ago | 84 comments
55. Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
    59 points by mmoya 10 months ago | 120 comments
56. KDE going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
    58 points by dualogy 4 months ago | 46 comments