Need X-kill replacement.
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Hm, I think that's what Ctrl + Meta + Esc* does for me on KDE? Unless there's more to x-kill than just killing windows/processes with a mouse click.
Edit: Originally said Ctrl + Esc, shame on my poor memory
There is actually less to ’xkill’. It nukes the X window from orbit in a very violent manner. The owning process(-tree) will usually just instantly curl up and die.
The main benefit is that it doesn’t actually kill the process, it only nukes the window. As such, you can get rid of windows belonging to otherwise unkillable processes (zombies, etc).
Also, it’s fun. Just don’t miss the window and accidentally kill your WM. (Beat that Wayland)
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Plasma and Hyprland already have one
I have a shitload of bug/weird behavior with Wayland, I hope it gets better but for me it is not there yet.
god i wish. half of my X11 apps don't work, some that used to keep breaking out of nowhere.
Steam works through the XWayland compatibility layer
unless you use an environment that doesn't support XWayland, like niri. xwayland-satellite used to be the easier route in that case but that seems to be broken now.
edit: wow i always thought people were being obtuse when complaining about "wAyLaNd sHiLLs" in their replies when criticizing Wayland. but now i'm not so sure.
What issues do half of your X11 apps? Ive never had an issue with an X11 app running through Xwayland, although I also dont have many X11 apps left.
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Issue is already closed though and might have more to do with xwayland itself it seems. Also fwiw, i just tested steam on niri with xwayland-satellite a few weeks ago and it worked just fine.
issue closed != issue resolved though. it worked "a few" weeks ago for me too, and now it doesn't. other people in fedi and one in that issue have the same problem, so it's not like i'm alone with some weird setup here.
also i should note, although i did that in the linked issue, that other xwayland compositors do work. they're just way more janky for running X11 apps seamlessly. so i'm not convinced the issue is elsewhere. i just didn't press the issue out of respect for the maintainer and the only productive thing to do at this point would be to submit a patch if i am indeed right.
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I wish Nvidia agreed.
At leasr it just works with tailsOS
In this current state it's currently only in a few des (kde and gnome and lxqt has it stable) and windows manager(wayfire and Sway and qtile has it stable) but maybe in the future it will be most des