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by Arnavion 1135 days ago
Which tools?
3 comments

xbanish, xcape, xdotool, find-cursor, xclip, dmenu, my somewhat specific hacked-up version of dwm, various specific configurations in X.

Some of these have alternatives that work the way I want, some don't. In either case I will have to spend time replicating the environment I've been happy with for many years by finding and configuring existing tools or by writing my own, all for no concrete benefit.

Eventually I'll have to bite the bullet I suppose, but Xorg works well today and I expect it will continue to work well for quite a few more years. As long as it's not needed, I'd rather spend my time elsewhere.

Some of those indeed have alternatives already, but okay it seems you're already aware of them.
Barrier, the Synergy replacement.

Apparently Wayland's architecture makes it an actual hard problem. It's the one tool I rely on daily that is stopping me from trying Wayland.

Synergy seems to have wayland support on its recent beta release.
A paid proprietary program is not a replacement for a libre+gratis program.
For me, not a tool but a WM: AwesomeWM