Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development

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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
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My very first experience with Linux last year was switching from X to Wayland to get my touchpad to work properly. The only thing I've noticed that doesn't work on Wayland is that mouse following cat.

[...] mouse following cat

I think I saw something recently about the cursor getting some tweaks in Wayland, I think KDE was working on it? Not sure if it'll help this kind of stuff but they're trying to standardize the cursor a bit better

Yeah the pointer is handled differently so the old packages don't work, and I couldn't find an updated package possibly because no one has bothered to write one yet. It's perfectly understandable and not an issue whatsoever.

Trackpads are handled much better though.

There’s no protocol yet that allows apps to observe inputs. They just started working on it so it may be a while.