In praise of xfce wayland on Solus

brent

lf-araujo thank you for the reply.

minh

Thanks for the post. I switched now to the Wayland session and it looks very positive. Only few things are missing, but I could leave with it.

One thing that took me quite sometime to figure out is the location of config files. I was following the document from labwc and thought the files are in .config/labwc. But actually they are in .config/xfce4/labwc. Since I figured out correct location, the customization was straight forward.

lf-araujo

I needed Zoom working, which was daunting in wayland based tiling wm. When I managed to get it working under labwc I sealed the deal.

minh

lf-araujo could you share how did you manage screen sharing? For me, it works only with tabs in MS Edge, but it shows error when I try to change to share Window or Screen. It seems org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast is not there yet.

[17412:17412:1004/224641.023478:ERROR:third_party/webrtc/modules/desktop_capture/linux/wayland/screen_capture_portal_interface.cc:54] Failed to request session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop [17412:17412:1004/224641.023501:ERROR:third_party/webrtc/modules/desktop_capture/linux/wayland/base_capturer_pipewire.cc:93] ScreenCastPortal failed: 3

lf-araujo

minh Sorry, I only saw this question now. Solution is what the user above provided.

minh

It's not perfect, but it works by appending 1 line org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast=wlr
at the end of this file /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/xfce-portals.conf

minh

minh
It seems my custom to enable screen sharing here will be overwritten after system update. Is there any other way I could archive this? @EbonJaeger

minh

Found solution for lock screen. Add this to rc.xml

<keybind key="W-l">
   <action name="Execute" command="swaylock -i /usr/share/backgrounds/solus/waves-of-blue.jpg -s fill" />
</keybind>

And replace Xfce lock with

xfconf-query --channel xfce4-session --property /general/LockCommand --set "swaylock -i /usr/share/backgrounds/solus/waves-of-blue.jpg -s fill -f" --create -t string

For background image, add new item in "Session and Startup" app (Application Autostart)
command: swaybg -i /usr/share/backgrounds/solus/waves-of-blue.jpg -m fill
trigger: on Login.

minh

And screenshot with shortcut F9 setup in rc.xml

<keybind key="F9">
 	  <action>
 	  	<name>Execute</name>
 	  	<command>sh -c 'grim -g "`slurp`" - | wl-copy -f'</command>
 	  </action>
 </keybind>```

lf-araujo

Here's a silly discovery. If you miss live wallpapers, it works on xfce + labwc:

mpvpaper ALL -p -o "--playlist=/home/luis/Pictures/Wallpapers/wallpapers.m3u \
                   --loop-playlist --shuffle no-audio --speed=0.2 --hwdec=auto --image-display-duration = 10000 --panscan=1"

Sebastian

minh I am not an expert here, but user changes should not be made in /usr dir as they will not persist as you have figured out. These files will be overwritten by packet manager when updating.

This change should be made either in /etc directory for system wide persistent changes or in .config dir in your home directory for user specific persistent changes.
So, try to copy the file to
/etc/xdg/xdg-desktop-portal/xfce-portals.conf
or ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/xfce-portals.conf
Make the changes to the file there.
Then restart service with systemctl --user restart xdg-desktop-portal.service or even better reboot.
Then verify if the locations I have given you to copy the file are correct by checking if your changes take effect while letting the file in /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal unaltered = the way they are shipped by Solus.

minh

Sebastian I could confirm copying to ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/xfce-portals.conf works. I understand that I shouldn't modify the file in /usr folder, but didn't know that copying to .config folder do the magic. Thank you!