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The event loop shit is a gnome issue I have, I haven't tried it with KDE but I wouldn't be surprised if the issue remains, where if you are switching windows/workspace to often the gnome event loop doesn't register that you have released the key because it's to busy fucking rendering the window/ Workspace switch.
We obviously don't have the same use case, so if it works for you all power to you. But it sucks balls, the way I like use my laptop when I'm working. Can't even do simple shit as to rebind a key, please find a working guide for kde or gnome, surprise they don't work, and it's fucking baffling the amount of different guides of how change keybindings and how many steps they require you do to, but they even work, why is that?
Why doesn't Wayland support fucking a config file, where you define key bindings, why does it not allow to copy shit from the terminal via xclip or any other method, it's like we went back 50 years in time, dude these tools existed 25 years ago.
Wtf is this, it's lacking so much functionality and also performance is worse, you get more performance from xserver like 20% more fps, just try playing a game and turn on the fps meter, and compare them. Wtf is this, how do you build something new based on prior knowledge but it's worse.
https://superuser.com/questions/1189467/how-to-copy-text-to-the-clipboard-when-using-wayland#1377550 In KDE, you can rebind the keybinds for anything, it's under system settings in the keyboard section, I'm not really sure what you're talking about. You can add custom ones to run any command, too, if the app doesn't register a keybind, so you could, for example, send a dbus signal to the app. The way it's done in wayland is different, but KDE supports all the stuff you mentioned in wayland from what I can tell.
It works so bad in KDE, and no I don't want to use GUI to bind keys, I want to save the configuration and use if I need to reinstall. I tried to rebind changing keyboard layout, doesn't work.
Sorry dude, but it works horribly bad
So, it does work, just not the way you would prefer it to?
No because it crashes bro, key events aren't properly registered, getting ghosted keys or whatever the term is, when it's to busy rendering the window animations or Workspace animations.
I'll tell you what, it's super convenient for red hat/IBM or whoever else is paying for the development of gnome and KDE development to install spyware, because now everything goes via Wayland protocol.
Wait, wait, going via a wayland protocol means each piece of software requires you to opt into what it collects, on X11 they can just read everything all the time no matter what, spyware in X11 is trivially easy, it's much harder when it goes via a wayland protocol.
Also, is what you're describing on gnome or KDE? As I understand it, KDE separates those parts out, so one shouldn't block the other.