Last time I tried Wayland (with Cinnamon), it didn’t support any keyboard layouts other than American. That’s a bit of a deal breaker if you’re not American.
That’s fair, don’t think I’ve messed with Linux mint in a good while. Didn’t realise there’d be much of a difference between Wayland on one DE vs the other. Since that is the case isn’t that more of a mark against the DE rather than Wayland itself?
Yup. I have yet to play around with wayland since im a linux mint user but look forward to it. I know what xserver intended to solve and weve gone way past those times. Something new is needed, and i hope wayland can integrate ui a lot better than xserver can. From what ive heard there are things wayland cant do that xserver can ( like stitching 2 monitors together and make it act like 1 ) but that wont stop me from trying and looking for performance differences
That’s what happens when you use an experimental feature that is actively being developed and receiving improvements over time. Transitioning an X11 stack to Wayland is not as simple as flipping on a build flag.
Keyboard support has been implemented and will arrive in 22.3:
Wayland support
Under the hood, the Cinnamon keyboard handling relied on libgnomekbd and only worked in Xorg.
This meant that Cinnamon under Wayland could only be used with an English (US) layout.
This new support is fully compatible with Wayland for both traditional layouts and IBus input methods.
It’s more of an “it’s still experimental” kind of issue. They’re releasing the Wayland session into the wild before it’s ready to boost the pace of bug-squashing. X11 remains default, but they allow the people who want to contribute (instead of whine on public forums about missing features) to test the Wayland session on a much greater variety of hardware and OS configurations than could ever be achieved in-house, report bugs, break things, and submit changes.
Last time I tried Wayland (with Cinnamon), it didn’t support any keyboard layouts other than American. That’s a bit of a deal breaker if you’re not American.
Cinnamon doesn’t support Wayland yet.
That must’ve been like ten years ago then
Not really. Linux mint/cinnamon is lacking behind on wayland support. Im still waiting for them to finish it but its going very very slowly.
With debian and ubuntu switching by default, i think linux mint will have to change gears quickly
That’s fair, don’t think I’ve messed with Linux mint in a good while. Didn’t realise there’d be much of a difference between Wayland on one DE vs the other. Since that is the case isn’t that more of a mark against the DE rather than Wayland itself?
Yup, Cinnamon is slow on Wayland support, but they’re getting there. Eventually.
Yup. I have yet to play around with wayland since im a linux mint user but look forward to it. I know what xserver intended to solve and weve gone way past those times. Something new is needed, and i hope wayland can integrate ui a lot better than xserver can. From what ive heard there are things wayland cant do that xserver can ( like stitching 2 monitors together and make it act like 1 ) but that wont stop me from trying and looking for performance differences
Wasn’t there on cinnamon when I checked 5 days ago
It has been implemented in the development branch, and will be released publicly in 22.3, the next point release.
That’s really nice news
A few months ago.
That’s what happens when you use an experimental feature that is actively being developed and receiving improvements over time. Transitioning an X11 stack to Wayland is not as simple as flipping on a build flag.
Keyboard support has been implemented and will arrive in 22.3:
So it’s a Cinnamon issue, not Wayland’s.
It’s more of an “it’s still experimental” kind of issue. They’re releasing the Wayland session into the wild before it’s ready to boost the pace of bug-squashing. X11 remains default, but they allow the people who want to contribute (instead of whine on public forums about missing features) to test the Wayland session on a much greater variety of hardware and OS configurations than could ever be achieved in-house, report bugs, break things, and submit changes.
Still doesn’t, but X11 randomly freezes the desktop. US keyboard is still better than random hangups that require a power cycle.
I disagree. Though both qwerty layout, uk english > us english/international layout.
The enter key alone makes it better as is :p
Also having " and @ in the correct place, and being able to £.