Platform: Arch (Linux)
Environment: Sway (Wayland)
No I do not have an input manager/method running
Yes I poked around in the settings looking for anything that appeared relevant
This is a fresh install on a new machine without imported settings from any previous install. (So it might be something I turned off in an earlier version?)
ahh- (not on this machine) i have a launcher script that forces an x11 compatibility for kicad as wayland messes a lot up.
the kicad team doesn't really want to support wayland as its implementation isn't uniform or consistent enough across all distros yet, and they don't want to kludge/bugfix for every variation.
this became more of an issue with recent versions of gnome in which x11 compatibility is being gutted
I'm using F-44 with gnome on wayland
this is how I launch kicad:
flatpak run --nosocket=wayland --nosocket=fallback-x11 --socket=x11 org.kicad.KiCad
and since using this it behaves as it always has done previously
@fullywoolly @maya_b heh, amusingly, most of the things they list as issues with Wayland are Kicad features that drive me nuts, and I turn off
- cursor warping
- remembering where to put the windows (on i3 it would gradually walk the add component window right off the screen unless I dragged it back)
I'm going to keep testing on Wayland for now, tbh I bet a lot of what they've hit is GNOME-specific.
@fullywoolly i3 (and Sway, which is more or less an i3 workalike) can switch a desktop into tabbed or stacked view rather than tiled. That's what I do for my browsers. I only use tiling for terminals, in practice.
@cliffle oh I didn't make it that far. That's really helpful to know!
I'll have to give it another go
Oct 10, 2026, 9:57 AM@fullywoolly You may also find the container feature (a window containing multiple window, with its own layout setting) useful.
When working at the desk with a large, wide monitor, I like using a two- or three-column (split-horizontally) top-level layout where every column contains multiple windows in a tabbed or split-vertically layout. When I take the laptop with me, the overall layout stays the same, I just convert those top-level horizontally-split top-level layouts to tabbed – the internal layout stays the same.
@cliffle
@cliffle Wayland support is iffy and might be contributing. I downgraded back to X due to problems.