Dash-to-Plank specifically says it does not support Wayland. Plank has had an issue open about Wayland support since 2016, and they still haven't done it. Can't blame Wayland.
What's your use case for Plank? My guess is you're using GNOME wrong.
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Lemmy never fails to surprise me with its toxicity.
"you're using it wrong" seems more like the official motto of Wayland whenever anything that isn't working on it is brought up.
"Wayland - it's not us, it's you"
Ikr
I wouldn't blame Lemmy for a few bad apples like Wildbus though. There are plenty of good people here.
I don't blame Lemmy even though the official instance (and therefore devs) is kinda sus. They even delete discriminatory comments that I report quite quickly. The thing is that I see toxic comments all the time and what surprises me is that often they're replies to non-provoking and absolutely reasonable posts/comments (this case is not anywhere near the worst I've seen). That means the people behind them are just very aggressive which still hurts me a lot even though I lost hope for humanity quite some time ago. I guess I see a bit more % of them in the wild than you do for some reason
Just echoing what others said, Plank does not run on Wayland. You can install the "Dash to Dock" Gnome extension for a very similar experience (minus widgets). If using KDE, consider replacing Guake (which is GTK) with Yakuake (Qt).
The Dash to Plank dev doesn't want to support Wayland. You could use Dash to Panel or dash to dock instead, they've been the community favourites for years now.
Or of course you could use the standard Gnome workflow.
I've never heard of either of these things and I've been in the community for decades, cheers. I only use Plank itself, not dash-to-x anything. I've no idea what that even means tbh as I'm an i3 user usually so I've been out of the GNOME game for a bit.
if you're coming from i3, you may want to check out Sway instead.
What's Sway? Another twm?
it's a drop-in replacement for i3 on wayland
Wayland doesn't even support i3? Jesus
i3 doesn't support Wayland, not the other way around. It's an X11 window manager. Not sure why you would expect it to work on Wayland.
Oh I just thought if this change to Wayland is being pushed so hard by peeps here then that would mean at least the basics work on it haha, well that makes sense.
Not sure why
Don't really know what the technical differences are as I'm not a Linux expert by any means especially not when it comes to the relationship between the kernel and the display server, (Def gonna try to learn more with LFS soon tho!) or why Wayland hasn't added support for window managers yet.
Gonna have to stick with Xorg until the Wayland folks make Xorg software compatible
Plank would need to be rewritten