Wayland support?

[TheRegularDX]

Cool ideas?

Wayland support?

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Please be specific. Is Pi-Apps failing to launch for you on Wayland?

[TheRegularDX]

Please be specific. Is Pi-Apps failing to launch for you on Wayland?

Yes, currently the only way to use it on wayland is with Xwayland, it runs perfectly fine but official support would be pretty nice

[Botspot]

Wayland does not support window positioning, but Xwayland does. The current Pi-Apps interface uses a dual-pane interface, which only works if both windows can choose their exact position on the screen.

But maybe we've missed something! You can try using Pi-Apps on Wayland by commenting out one line of code.
Go to the ~/pi-apps/api script, and scroll all the way to the bottom.
The final few lines of the file will include:

#Make dual-pane yad windows work correctly on wayland
export GDK_BACKEND=x11

Comment out that one line mentioning "export" and then run Pi-Apps again.

[TheRegularDX]

Wayland does not support window positioning, but Xwayland does. The current Pi-Apps interface uses a dual-pane interface, which only works if both windows can choose their exact position on the screen.

But maybe we've missed something! You can try using Pi-Apps on Wayland by commenting out one line of code.
Go to the ~/pi-apps/api script, and scroll all the way to the bottom.
The final few lines of the file will include:

#Make dual-pane yad windows work correctly on wayland
export GDK_BACKEND=x11

Comment out that one line mentioning "export" and then run Pi-Apps again.

That worked... i think? Thank you for your help

[Botspot]

That worked... i think? Thank you for your help

To clarify, was something not working before you made this change? Did the dual-pane layout continue working after this change?

[theofficialgman]

native wayland simply cannot work using yad.
there is no support for defining window placement in the wayland protocol. it is never coming, they do not want it, its against wayland philosophy (see: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/183).

pi-apps relies on this feature to properly place top level windows for our dual pane feature, as well as update notifications, so xwayland (that like X11 does have this functionality) is forced through the use of that variable