I switched to KDE recently (very nice but tries to do too much) and also updated gossip to a newer egui. I thought the newer egui had a window positioning bug. After about 2 hours of testing and research I have discovered that KDE/Wayland doesn't allow windows to position themselves yet. 🤦
https://discuss.kde.org/t/saving-window-placements-on-wayland/10468/3
Ridiculous, right? Wake your laptop from sleep, plug in and external display… boom: windows scrambled.
weird, cause sway has been arranging my windows perfectly both from sleep and from dual/single monitor switching for a while now. i noticed the change when it started working because i was like, hell yeah this is amazing!!! great job year of linux desktop!
did u try running arch (or latest wayland/kde/etc)? 🤔🐧
Interesting. I do use Arch… btw.
I’m running Gnome, with everything up to date. Maybe sway built it in at the WM level?
i see now maybe kde is at fault and not wayland according to that bug report.. unsure about gnome maybe theyre in a similar position..
recent update to gnome control center it doesn't open at all for me, i was forced to switch, i run cinnammon now, and probably will forevermore amen
cinnamon is basically gnome 3, gnome 4 was an unneccessary and retarded breaking change
I recently switched to generic debian. But I'm on testing so it gets frequent updates and bugs, kinda like Arch.
Switching my hardware, my OS, my windowing manager, and upgrading egui all in close temporal proximity was in retrospect a bad idea. It is hard to know at which layer a problem is coming from.
Ah the joys of wayland, so many features, so little adoption and implementations.
XFCE is the answer. It's like a Windows 98 interface but it actually works. Gets out of the way. Doesn't ask for much resources. Been on XFCE for well over a decade. I switched to it when Ubuntu tried to do that Unity thing. Never looked back. Friends and family, even newbies, are on XFCE. No problems. Stable.
