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by fourmyle 2310 days ago
IntelliJ Editors just straight up not working on Wayland right now has driven me insane. I really like Sway (i3) and Wayland is a must for mixed DPI setups. Now I have started using Kakoune and LSP for Go and Python and it works great. I tried Neovim for a while but having another window manager inside of Sway is too much of a burden. Kakoune opens new windows in Sway (or tmux). Combined with a plugin to make Firefox open tabs in a new window always I found my dream setup.
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EdwardDiego 2310 days ago
> IntelliJ Editors just straight up not working on Wayland right now has driven me insane

Maybe don't use Wayland then. Or, at least, suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with some grace. You chose to use Wayland, making you a minority (Wayland users) of a minority (Linux users). All power to you to make your own choices, but to paraphrase an old favourite - "Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling."

TL;DR - you choose to use tech not supported by Jetbrains, so please feel free to eat your dinner while it's still wriggling.

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fourmyle 2310 days ago
If Firefox can pull it off so can Jetbrains. X does not work for mixed dpi and xrandr isn’t a solution. Wayland has been a thing for 15 years. If Apple released a new window system devs would support it why not Linux? Your view is essentially there are starving kids in Africa so you should starve too.
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uk_programmer 2310 days ago
Because there are probably more developers using MacOS and it is officially supported by Apple. Wayland may have been available for 15 years but it isn't defacto (doesn't work with the nvidia driver).
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