Running YAD scripts in Gnome with Wayland

[VlaSard]

The following command can be used to run the script:

GDK_BACKEND=x11 <command>

It works in Gnome, no problems. For other DEs the command may be different.

[sonic2kk]

Fwiw Yad works just fine ootb on Plasma Wayland, the only limitation I know of is a lack of notebook support 🙂

Since Yad is GTK-based the environment variable set here should not differ across DEs, unless something odd is going on. At least on Plasma, the environment variable is still the one you linked.

[VlaSard]

The main laptop is running Gnome on Wyland or X11. When on Wyland, you need to write GDK_BACKEND. On X11, everything works. I watched Plasma on a virtual machine, but it's also on X11. Same behavior on Fedora. When using Wyland and setting GDK_BACKEND=x11, notebook works. My main system is Manjaro on Gnome.

[sonic2kk]

By notebook, I meant a tabbed panel like the one in the System Information example :-)

[VlaSard]

That's right. That works, too. A screenshot from the virtual machine.

[sonic2kk]

On Plasma Wayland then, unless you specify GDK_BACKEND=x11, notebooks won't work. I guess they work on GNOME natively on Wayland. Interesting!

[VlaSard]

The only Plasma I have available is on X11. I can't switch to Wayland. But originally YAD has no support for Wayland. This is like a workaround for running under Wayland. By the way, the tray icon will not appear under Wayland.

[sonic2kk]

Indeed, though as a neat workaround you can get the tray icon will appear if you force the tray icon process to use X11, SteamTinkerLaunch does this :-) Though this has the unfortunate side effect of appearing blurry on scaled displays

GDK_BACKEND=x11 "$YAD" --image="$STLICON" --notification --item-separator=","\
            --menu="$TRAY_KILLSWITCH,bash -c killProtonGame \
            |$TRAY_PAUSE,bash -c PauseGame \
            |$TRAY_SHADER,bash -c TrayShaderMenu \
            |$TRAY_VR,bash -c TrayVR \
            |$TRAY_PICKWINDOW,bash -c TrayPickWin \
            |$TRAY_SRC,bash -c TraySRC \
            |$TRAY_UWT,bash -c TrayUWT \
            |$TRAY_LCS,bash -c TrayLCS \
            |$GUI_GAFI,bash -c TrayGameFiles \
            |$TRAY_UPL,bash -c TrayProtonList \
            |$FBUT_GUISET_MO,bash -c TrayMO2 \ 
            |$TRAY_OPENISSUE,bash -c TrayOpenIssue" \
            --text="$TRAY_TOOLTIP" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
            YADTRAYPID="$!"