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Ok so I've mainly used Windows, but I got a secondary machine with Linux, which for the last few years has been running KDE Neon which I rather enjoy.

This whole "desktop stack" on Linux always makes my head hurt, so these might be really dumb questions:

If I install some distro, Arch say, and I wanted to use Sway, and I then want to run Kile, will Kile then run through XWayland? Will it work just as well as Kile on KDE Neon?

I understand KWin has some Wayland support but it also seems not quite ready for prime time the times I've tried it. So was curious about alternatives, just for curiosities sake.

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>If I install some distro, Arch say, and I wanted to use Sway, and I then want to run Kile, will Kile then run through XWayland?

Kile seems to use Qt5, so should work without Xwayland.

> Will it work just as well as Kile on KDE Neon?

It should, yes. I don't use Kile though, so I haven't checked.

> Kile

Since Kile is a KDE application it should run using Qts wayland backend.

> Will it work just as well as Kile on KDE Neon?

Depends, do you need anything more fancy than mouse and keyboard? No? Then great.

Power user functionality like copy paste on the other hand? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4007 might want to pray before using that.

> Power user functionality like copy paste on the other hand? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4007 might want to pray before using that.

Come on.

Congratulations, you've found the only opened bug report about clipboard on Sway/wlroots. It's triggered by edge cases (X11 client hanging + fcitx apparently), and most of it has been fixed already.

Are you really trying to convince people that the clipboard is broken on Wayland with this? Maybe you could start by actually trying Wayland.

Kile most likely runs as a native Wayland application. Though for any legacy apps/games that use X, yeah they'll run in XWayland and should be seamless.

Right... seamless...

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1065

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