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by smoldesu 974 days ago
Yep! Though to be fair, it's mostly because KDE and GNOME are starting to merge really great Wayland support patches.

I'm personally not much of a fan of the way Wayland was rolled out or designed, but I do daily-drive it without issue on Plasma. It's far-and-away the better option for gesture-oriented workflows and gaming, and it feels more deeply integrated with the DE (for better and worse). It's the new hotness that all the gimmeck-obsessed Windows and Mac converts are going to want. You, me and the UNIX graybeard in the basement might get our feathers ruffled, but Bob and Alice get touchpad gestures.
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jraph 974 days ago
> get touchpad gestures

Which ones?

Is there something beyond pinch zooming (which works on both) that works on Wayland and not on X?

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smoldesu 974 days ago
All the Plasma desktop gestures are broken on x11, and if memory serves it's the same situation on GNOME. I spent a long time on x11 trying to get it to work (via Touchegg et. al) but eventually left for Wayland where it worked out-of-box.

And to be fair, some gestures do work on x11. 2-finger trackpad scrolling isn't precise but it works, and Chromium/Firefox both seem to work with libinput-gestures. The situation is completely different for native applications and desktops though (unfortunately). On Wayland, gestures work like they do on MacOS and Windows. On x11 they work like they did in Compiz.

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