KWin doesn’t support wlr-randr, from the sounds of it.

I’m on EndeavourOS, and I’ve enabled all the testing repos along with kde-unstable… and I’m still on 6.8.2. I really, really want 6.8.3 just for that Dolphin fix that’s supposed to show file transfer progress more accurately.

KWin doesn’t support them, and the KDE devs in their stubbornness see no reason to. I really have a love/hate relationship with this DE.

KDE doesn’t have them either, and they’re something I sorely mess. Whenever I emulate or virtualize Windows, sometimes I like to let it go idle and just watch its screensavers.

While I don’t plan on going back to X11 anytime soon on my main system, I think I’ll vote for this anyway. People have valid reasons for continuing to use X11, and I’m sick of KDE’s “father knows best” attitude.

Honestly, most people just don’t care as long as they have something that works.

Users do have choice, X11 still exists

Not if you want to use KDE on Arch or derivatives.

It is nice that Wayland is more secure, and that’s one of the reasons I started using it before my DE started mandating it. But, it’d be nice if I could keep most of that security, while having the option to enable certain things that are disabled for security by default where I need them.

Going back to X11 and its total lack of security isn’t an ideal option, and I can’t even use my preferred DE with it on my preferred distro.

Like I said in a different comment, if such a feature exists, it should be an opt-in thing. It shouldn’t be something that’s enabled by default. Heck, I think you could use a permissions-based model where you could specify which apps can read your keystrokes, and which can’t.

I wouldn’t worry about supporting every compositor in existence. Ideally, the Wayland spec would be unified, but it’s not.

I feel like if someone created a compositor with an extension for that feature, it’d eventually become popular enough that people would start implementing that extension in other compositors.

It would be nice if end users had more choice in the matter. It’d be cool if someone made a Wayland compositor that allowed some of these features as an opt-in thing.

I tried it once and didn’t care for it. Opinionated distros are really not my thing.

I know about Backports. It’s just software from the next version of Debian.

Tbh I’ve given up on looking for an AUR equivalent for now.

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What do you want?

I want an AUR, but for Debian. Same thing, PKGBUILDS included, but targeting apt instead of pacman, and Debian’s packages instead of Arch’s. I feel like it would work well since Debian has a stable base, so it’d be easy to build packages against it.

That makes sense. Thanks. :D

You can add Ubuntu PPAs if you really want to, but you will likely run into dependency issues fairly quick.

That’s a terrible idea and shouldn’t even be suggested. I learned that the hard way about 15 years ago trying to get graphics drivers working on Crunchbang.

I remember joystickwake was one of the main things that pushed me to try the MPR a few years ago, when I was testing Debian on my laptop. I got so frustrated with setting up the MPR that I just installed EndeavourOS.

Mesen-CE is another program I use that’s not in Debian’s repos. It’s not too hard to set up without it, but it’d be nice if it were there.

I don’t think vkquake is in Debian’s repos either, but I’m not 100% sure about that. It recently made it into Arch’s main repos, which is cool.

I’m not sure if Faugus Launcher is in Debian’s repos either.

EDIT: I just double-checked. None of these programs are in Debian’s repos, but Faugus is on Flathub.

I’m not sure tbh, but the idea of locking any security updates behind One irritates me.

Ubuntu started locking certain security updates behind Ubuntu One a few years ago. They also won’t stop pushing Snap over native packages.

Thanks for reminding me. That’s another thing I should’ve inb4’d.