Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: KiCad and Wayland Date: 16 Jun 2025 19:25:38 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9JzUnwluwMJuiz+1S6T7WQzIYi2nMhCEPv10EW0T3mI83xseK7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eaNxd84wJ8bdZl4K3FKdJMN/lCs= sha256:MO4qabqyDk1HPvOrFcda/7ol+/vtxwb+QNwpqOdxz7c= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68835 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.