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  • maya_b 🇨🇦maya_b@hachyderm.io
    Oct 9, 2026, 11:00 PM

    @cliffle

    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

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  • maya_b 🇨🇦maya_b@hachyderm.io
    Oct 9, 2026, 11:02 PM

    @cliffle

    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

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  • clifflecliffle@hachyderm.io
    Oct 9, 2026, 11:06 PM

    @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.

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  • Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.social
    Oct 9, 2026, 11:24 PM

    @cliffle @maya_b I haven't used KDE or anything else in a minute. I did try i3 once at work but I had approx 50 billion browser windows and tabs open and the tiles were infinitesimally small. It was a real problem navigating and was hampering my work too much. I didn't give it a fair chance.

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  • clifflecliffle@hachyderm.io
    Oct 9, 2026, 11:25 PM

    @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.

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  • Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.social
    Oct 10, 2026, 3:41 AM

    @cliffle oh I didn't make it that far. That's really helpful to know!

    I'll have to give it another go

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