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bemenu
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Bash Menu
I really like using something like fuzzy search for menus like these. https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu is pretty cool in that it works both in a terminal, X11 and on Wayland, so if you want to do something graphical later you can easily migrate. There's also fzf and skim, which work similarly but are only for the terminal.
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Run scripts using keybindings in default settings
I know that dmenu won't work on wayland, hence I installed bemenu as a drop-in replacement. Now I want to configure keybindings for my scripts using the default settings, but they don't seem to work. Running my scripts from the terminal work, but not when running them via keybinding.
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command line menu / launcher?
bemenu (i. e. bemenu-run) is a simple launcher that has command line interface (set with BEMENU_BACKEND environment variable), also fzf can be useful in this regard but it will most likely require writing additional scripts to work as a launcher.
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The end of the nice GTK button
I've already highlighted how using environment variables to change themes is a horrible user experience. The bemenu program suffers from the same flaw. Environment Variables should never be used in any way for values that might change inside a running session.
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How to accept text input in swaynag?
bemenu
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No_color
Environment variables are fine when used for things that usually don't change once they're set. For example, XDG_CONFIG_HOME or GOPATH. They are, however, absolutely awful when used to configure values that will probably change inside a session. A good example is BEMENU_OPTS from the bemenu program, which is used to change colors, font etc. Should I relogin into my session just to make a program use dark mode colors?
https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu#environment-variables
In such cases, environment variables lose their intended purpose and they need to be stuffed into wrapper scripts or overridden on the command line before executing a command, which is extremely annoying.
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Identifying the window of Bemenu
Bemenu - "Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu"
- Less Than 10% of Firefox Users on Linux Are Running Wayland
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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.
[1] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/264
[2] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
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tessen: an interactive menu to autotype and copy password store data on Wayland, like rofi-pass
tessen can use either bemenu, the wayland fork of rofi, or wofi to show password store data. It relies on wtype for autotyping instead of using ydotool because ydotool needs root privileges.
xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
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How do I configure xdg-desktop-portal so that it works and keeps working?
It comes with a systemd service file https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/blob/master/contrib/systemd/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service.in that you can use
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How do you guys screenshare Sway on Discord?
Are you running the Wayland envvar for Firefox, MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1? Because the rest of your setup sounds very similar to my (working) setup. You could also run the Python test script included with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr (bottom of this page) as a sanity check that nothing's going wrong there
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Which technology / protocol etc. is the next big thing, coming the next few years in Linux gaming?
- Global hotkey portal
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Is there any way to screenshare only a single window?
Not yet: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/107
- Xfce 4.18, and the Future of the Desktop
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Moving from a DE, loss of functionality?
You'll need this
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Tearing updates got merged into Wayland! Now we only have to wait for implementations in KWin and Gnome!
I believe that a lot of the current approach to fixing it is something similar to xdg-desktop-portal. That's for signaling for screenshots, but a similar idea could work for listening for key events without being focused, apparently. It bypasses the standard Wayland system completely and uses D-Bus and Pipewire instead. I'm not too familiar with the details myself, though.
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PSA: Steam Link (Remote Play) works on Wayland with AMD GPU
I don't know which of the xdg-desktop-portal backends you would need for gamescope, but xdg-desktop-portal-wlr has a config file which it reads where you can set the preferred output and set the chooser_type to none. That makes it skip the screen selector for me.
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flameshot not working in sway (typing "flameshot gui" hangs in the terminal)
See these links for more info: * flameshot: flameshot gui from cli does nothing. dbus error UnknownMethod: "No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” #2872 * xdg-desktop-portal: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop #861 * xdg-desktop-portal-wlr: screenshot: Announce version property
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sway inverted screen sharing
This is a known issue: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/83
What are some alternatives?
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
tessen - an interactive menu to autotype and copy pass and gopass data
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - Gtk implementation of xdg-desktop-portal
rofi-pass - rofi frontend for pass
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
pass-tessen - fuzzy data selection and copy-paste from password store
v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device
password-store-example - Gopass examples
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: