wl-clipboard

> and I use xclip extensively to copy contents of files (and stdin) to it. I won't say anything against your other points (and in fact I am typing this comment on Xorg because I have my own list of reasons), but https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard is almost drop-in for xclip/xsel.

> things it doesn't support like xclip https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard $ cat ~/bin/clip #!/bin/sh if [[ -z $WAYLAND_DISPLAY ]]; then xclip -selection clipboard else wl-copy fi

There's `wl-copy` and `wl-paste` for Wayland users too, via https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

I find it so annoying that these only work with plain text and RTF. On X11 there is `xclip`[0] and on Wayland there is `wl-clipboard`[1] both of which support binary file formats either through parsing the header or explicitly setting the MIME type. This means you can do things like copy an image from the terminal and paste it into a graphical program like a browser or chat client and vice-versa. Also can be very useful in shell scripts for desktop automation. The workaround on MacOS is to use AppleScript via `osascript` to `set the clipboard to...`. [0] https://github.com/astrand/xclip [1] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

> taking screenshots There's plenty of tools for this. I wrote a light and simple one that shows a tiny thumbnail, [`shotman`](https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/shotman). But there's plenty others of all sorts. > auto keyboard/mouse scripting with xdotool There's a few tools for this: https://github.com/natpen/awesome-wayland#tools > not have unnecessary mouse/keyboard to monitor delay There's none that I can notice. Mice cursor are rendered with hardware support when available. Not sure what you reference is here. > 4K fullscreen, windowed fullscreen and windowed gaming with nvidia drivers, for native and steam proton games All this works on non-nvidia. I can't speak for nvidia, I'd suggest avoiding nvidia if you want to use Linux (or any other floss OS). Generally, nvidia on Linux isn't very pleasant. > choosing to have vsync enabled or dis

> xclip, read from and write to the clipboard in the command line There's wl-clipboard with the commands wl-copy and wl-paste: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard Works flawless in my experience.

sway laptop user here (for almost 2 years I think?). I spent a little while on this, but I migrated from i3, so I just ported every little section of my config bit by bit. In terms of battery bar and other "bar" type things, I use waybar[0] which basically does all the things you'd expect by default (just install and it "works"). For multi-monitor, config, I initially setup with wdisplays[1] (think arandr for wayland) and then manually copied the positions into my sway config. Monitor positioning was the only thing I needed to setup (and telling it that one monitor was HDPI) and then all of the scaling and everything worked perfectly. This was my biggest selling point for wayland, I now get nice crisp fonts and application scaling works nicely (which was not the case with X). volume control from the keyboard took no time, just a couple of

wl-clipboard [1] provides similar wl-copy & wl-paste for wayland [1] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

* It's not exactly the same, but I use Kanshi for dynamic output configuration. https://github.com/emersion/kanshi * https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard * https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi * https://github.com/yory8/clipman * There's wlrobs for OBS. There's grim/slurp/wl-recorder for use outside of OBS. * You can use grim to grab a particular color on the screen, but the UI wouldn't be as good, of course.

There are few replacements: * https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard * https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool OBS / ffmpeg and etc. should get integrated with Pipewire I think for screen capture and the like? But I'm not sure how far that progressed.

I switched to Sway recently. I couldn't believe how snappy it is. Some of your issues are solved: CLI clipboard access: wl-clipboard: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard App launcher: bemenu: https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu

Handling shortcuts would be compositor specific. Unlike X, the display server part with Wayland is implemented by the compositors. Wayland itself is just the protocol. KWin for example allows setting various global shortcuts: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/keys/i... For wl-copy / wl-paste, see: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard