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With recent package and kernel updates I have had X11 hang on my main screen a lot lately. I have also had the login screen not display anything on my 2nd monitor (even after logging in) and I had to logoff and it would fix itself. Instead of trying to figure out why, I figured it was a great time to just switch to Wayland (all AMD hardware) and it feels so much smoother and faster…everything I do.

I already am running Manjaro KDE. I installed the plasma-workspace package, but that may not have been needed as I didn’t know about the switch from X11 to Wayland being in the lower-left corner of the login screen when first booting up. I know it was there for certain after the plasma-workspace was loaded, but didn’t check before and don’t care to find out.

I did need to adjust some Kwin Windows Rules to get some applications to always open where I wanted them, which meant mostly updating the “Window class (application)” and removing the setting which put them in the 2nd screen since as far as I can tell the screens (2 of them) are named and not numbered in Wayland. The only application I can’t get locked to a certain location is Yakuake – if I find a fix I’ll write about it.

I also found out about the fun little application xeyes (package xorg-xeyes) which helps me know if anything is still rendering with X11 instead of Wayland. If the eyes follow you cursor then you are over an X11 applications (Steam Client is currently an X11 only app)

Anyways I just wanted to post this here in case anyone else was wondering these things. So far, so great with Wayland…of course I am using a modern AMD CPU/GPU (7700X/6950XT) which as I understand is great for Wayland.