KiCad and Wayland

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https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

It's a good summary of the problems going from X11 to Wayland. For those 
not familiar with it KiCad is very popular for creating schematics and pc 
board layouts. With the number of companies offering board fabrication at 
relatively low prices it's a long way from the old days of laying out 
boards with tape and etching them yourself. 

KiCad uses wxWidgets, where the 'x' means X11 and is cross-platform. It 
would be ironical if Windows becomes a better OS than Fedora or Ubuntu for 
electronics design.

For a while QGIS had a banner alerting users that dialogs might not 
function correctly on Wayland but they seem to have overcome the problem. 
Because of its nature KiCad may face greater difficulty.

fwiw, I haven't tried but I doubt our legacy software would do well with 
Wayland. Like KiCad it uses window control and IPC features that Wayland 
specifically removed.

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KiCad and Wayland rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-16 19:25 +0000
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