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But it's coming anyway, whether people like it or not.

FWIW, it is my understanding that XWayland is still supported, so it's not like your apps will stop working.

My problems with Wayland are KDE specific. I tired it, but there where so many window management regressions and sometimes graphical glitches that I switched back. But that was under plasma 6.4. Have to try again now on 6.5 to see if these issues are fixed. If not I should write a bug report, I guess.

Also there needs to be an alternative for (or patch to) simplescreenrecorder that works under Wayland. I don't want use a complex thing like OBS to make a quick demo video to demonstrate something for a co-worker and stuff.

I'm not sure about SSR currently but Kooha and KDE's own Spectacle work on Wayland fine. I'm running Plasma 6.5 on Arch and very pleased with it.

Didn't know Spectacle can do screen recordings now. Just tried it: The "New Recording" button seems to be broken. It does nothing. No error message on the terminal even. Maybe it only works under Wayland?

Yeah same here. Kind of shitty.

OBS Studio still works fortunately.

> FWIW, it is my understanding that XWayland is still supported, so it's not like your apps will stop working.

Applications generally work through XWayland. Accessibility and automation tools do not.

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