I moved over to Wayland full time a couple of weeks ago (using KDE on Arch). I have finally rid myself of any X11 hangups apart from one. Latte will NOT respect my primary screen when changing monitor arrangement (ie. turning my projector on and off) and seems to randomly pick a screen to call the primary.
Soooo, as I’m considering a change…what dock in Wayland works for you? Is there anything as good as Latte in X11?
the KDE native Dock is the only good working one I think. Will get way more dock-ey in Plasma 6
I’m on Hyprland and I use Waybar because it’s the best
Maybe you can set up a KWin window rule to force Latte to be where you want it to be?
Not that Plasma panels work that much better than Latte in that regard, they still sometimes shift monitors just because something is plugged in (not even enabled, just plugged in!)
I really wish we could pin things to the exact monitor via its physical port location or serial number or something from EDID.
Thanks for the suggestion. This does work. You can force the dock to a specific screen, but then it doesn’t autohide (dodge) as it still thinks the other random screen is the primary and only triggers off that. Still, this may be the answer if nobody can suggest an alternative.
Not a Plasma user (I use Sway), my preferred bar is Waybar since it’s very customizable with CSS
I haven’t found anything I like as much as Latte Dock yet, but it refuses to work on my system these days and it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to fork it and fix it up so I’m just back to the built-in KDE docks & panels these days TBH.
I use scripts that change my display setup (xrandr), the active latte profile and my audio output.
The command to switch the latte profile
qdbus org.kde.lattedock /Latte org.kde.LatteDock.switchToLayout MonitorsYou can just create a profile for every scenario once and switch between them.
Does xrandr work on Wayland? I thought it was an X11 tool. That would be so cool, I use it to change the brightness on my laptop’s monitor when KDE’s gui thing stops working (after sleep, I think). I think I looked for a replacement for Wayland but did not find anything a while back
Only the KDE/latte part of my script was relevant to the topic. Xrandr is X11
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification __
Not seen this before, I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the suggestion.
I use a kde pannel with auto hide
What’s your desktop?
KDE Plasma
I’m not a plasma user but I’m pretty sure plasma has a built in dock****
Use an auto-hiding panel instead and add a taskbar so that your running programs are there. I use that with KDE Wayland and it works well and is highly customizable.
