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You kinda just need to use new stuff when it's all so heavily dependent on an X server.

    * swaymsg (no idea what Gnome or KDE do here)
    * wl-clipboad
    * wofi, or a Wayland fork of rofi (https://github.com/lbonn/rofi)
    * I don't use a clipboard manager, so I'm gonna skip this one. :D
    * slurp, grim, wf-recorder, mpv (OBS and ffmpeg work fine, not sure about the others)
I think I was lucky to get back into Linux this year because I didn't have to unlearn anything to use Wayland. You mention a dozen tools I've never heard of! If I had some X flow I'd been using for years with 10s of tools that no longer work on the other side, that would be overwhelming.


clipman, for a clipboard manager.

Also here's a oneliner for color picking:

grim -g "$(slurp -p)" - -t png -o | convert png:- -format '%[pixel:s]\n' info:- | awk -F '[(,)]' '{printf("#%02x%02x%02x\n",$2,$3,$4)}'


May I recommend CopyQ as well? I moved to it when Plasma changed Klipper some time ago and I am quite glad I did. Can even install it on Windows in a portable fashion. I can't shake the feeling that I can do so much with it yet I'm barely scratching the surface as user, it's quite powerful.


+1 for CopyQ from me, it is awesome.


Yeah no, requiring users to switch applications makes your display server DOA.




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