KDE Plasma Wayland Tryout

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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