Check Wayland Protocol Support In 1 Easy Step!

Ages back this little app called Waycheck and I was supposed to look at it back then but I honestly completely forgot but it's still a great app to use.

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[destiny_]

these bots love Wayland a little too much

[TheFerdi]

The "Unknown" category seems to list all protocols supported by the current compositor that Waycheck doesn't know about.

[serecano]

what I love about those wayland protocol probers is, that - due to how wayland works - these are in some form forward-compatible

[oliverbeard]

Some nice ideas at the end for extending the app - I know they'd be accepted and not too difficult to implement. I helped improve the UI of this app - early versions had shading for disabled rows, no searching and no filtering!

[christopherwise]

5:29 "Another thing missing is the Cosmic stuff ... I'd be very suprised if this was not added"

I just installed version 1.3.1 on Fedora and there is a Cosmic Tab!

[thialfi]

From giving waycheck a run on river it does look like it lists the extra protocols supported by river. They get put under the "unknown" section. I think it makes sense that they don't list every protocol by default just because there's no central repository for all these extra one-off protocols. So to list them, they'd have to track them all down manually and then have a nightmare of trying to ensure they're all up to date.

It also looks like they've added COSMIC since you've recorded :)

[serecano]

this man is living in my walls. just a while ago I found out about this same thing.

[mrchnng]

9:30 that tool already exists, it's called wlprobe, it outputs json and it is how the wayland explorer gets the compositor support

[bluephreakr]

Brodie records these videos the same way anyone else releasing content habitually on a per-week basis does; he sits in front of his computer and _either_ makes a "Master roll" of episodes, then cuts from that and releases them periodically, _or_ makes a bunch of separate episodes which relieves the step of cutting content up.

[thingsiplay]

One off protocols
Those protocols specific to a certain software makes sense to be listed too. Why? Because others can implement it.

[sen]

It seems that Waycheck detects what WMs/DEs are installed, because there is a COSMIC tab present on my install (v1.3.1-1 arch). Edit: should have watched the rest first :D

[atbjyk]

also you can make custom wayland protocol, then the list can't be perfect.
and already having wayland-info for checks supported protocols.

[Triro]

Me awaiting Action binder protocol.
(Merge request 216)

[softwarelivre]

So GNOME has no GNOME specific protocol and only implements the default ones (most of them btw)? Or they just were not listed here?

[fuseteam]

9:30 pretty sure that already exists, it's how wayland explorer's data is generated

[genstian]

Its nice, but what about those silly "partial supported" things for protocols?

[ToyKeeper]

A fragmented ecosystem where every desktop environment has a different API that apps have to support. This is sounding very "tower of Babel".

[catdotjs]

half of the comments are already bots lmfao

[supremesonicbrazil]

So which protocols exactly should I look for to know if I can fully migrate? Given all I do right now is work, use Discord Web, sometimes screenshot and record my screen (with audio, very important) and play Steam games, but also planning on using OBS for possibly streaming in the future. Maybe there's one or another really obscure edge case I'm forgetting right now but this is like 95% of my daily usage.

[the-answer-is-]

Question: What protocol(s) are needed for remote desktop clients to work properly? Last time I tried it, it didn't work that well since ut wouldn't properly send key presses to the machine you were logging into. E.g. if I clicked the meta key, that never got sent and instead my normal machine reacted to it. Since I like playing with VMs, this was kind of annoying.

Note: I only tried this on Pop OS 22.04, so it's very possible it works on Gnome or KDE or even on newer Pop OS. It might just have been a bit experimental at that point. Wouldn't notice because I just yse X11 for VM stuff after that. Either way, it would be good to know what protocols are needed for this.