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> Until Wayland has all these (and more) and they are as stable and feature-rich as the existing apps on X, I will not willingly switch to Wayland.

For me it’s some of those, dwm, sxhkd, keynav, xcape, the Compose key, and simple highlight + middle click/Shift+Insert copypasta. I’m a bit confused about the extent to which the Wayland devs have changed their minds about the last one.

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Man reading this thread confirmed that I probably shouldn't even attempt to use Wayland in the near future, I basically use every single of the features you've listed.

So far I basically kept using X11 because it mostly just works for me, but I didn't expect that Wayland was still so far behind.

xcape and the compose key are really killer tools. Not having them would really screw with productivity

FYI There are lots of alternatives to xcape (and even better ones because, in my experience, xcape is not compatible with VirtualBox or hot-plugging one's keyboard), e.g.:

https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/dual-function-... (currently using this – very powerful)

https://gitlab.com/at-home-modifier/at-home-modifier-evdev (used this for years – works extremely well)

Two more projects I've found that should work on Wayland:

https://github.com/myfreeweb/evscript

https://github.com/wbolster/evcape

Thanks for the links!

The compose key works just like in X; I use it all the time.

> works just like in X

So it respects ~/.XCompose?

Yes.

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