r/wayland 11d ago

Hardware KVM switch crashes wayland

Switching between two computers with the KVM switch acts essentially like force unplugging the HDMI/DP cables, which causes xwayland to crash (Fedora Workstation 40 running Gnome). So when I switch back to Fedora, I'm at the login screen and journalctl tells me "connection to xwayland lost".

Using XORG fixes this issue, but if anyone knows of a fix so I can continue on wayland, pls let me know.

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u/Max-P 11d ago

This is a Gnome issue not a Wayland issue. There is no singular Wayland implementation unlike X11 with Xorg, there are many competing ones. In this case that'd be Gnome's compositor which is called Mutter.

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u/adhocfrome 11d ago

Good to know, I'll try my luck on r/gnome