How to Wayland

Simply run sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland.

Version, version and version

• Linux: 5.14.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.14.12-1 (2021-10-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux
• plasma-desktop: 5.23.0-2
• plasma-workspace-wayland: 5.23.0-3

Missing key-remapping feature

Historically, the Enter key on my keybaord does not work for almost ten years. And on GNU/Linux I’ve been using xmodmap -e 'keysym 0xff57 = 0xff8d' since the first day.

When I tried to switch from X11 to Wayland today (Oct 17, 2021), it does not work¹ when sending from KDE Connect² on my Android device. There is no keyboard input from Android to PC in the app on Wayland session as well.

Another sad fact is that onboard crashes when I click on it, while florence simply won’t run.

Besides that, I learned that xmodmap is now deprecated³, maybe I should switch to a more modern solution.

Great expectation

If my keyboard just works, it should be fine to use Wayland.

And there is caps2esc⁴ that may work in both X11 and Wayland, which sounds quite promising. Maybe I’ll try it some day.

I’ll try it again should I get the time (and money) to build a gaming PC one day in the near future.

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