Raspberry Pi OS's yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official

Andddd... the terminal while running under the Wayland session (probably runs under XWayland) doesn't use the same keyboard layout you had set on the install or later in the GUI, defaulting to en-US.

Keyboard layout integration should have been a day zero thing. Until now I see flatpak/snap packages that don’t use the correct layout for keyboard shortcuts under (X)Wayland. (The curse of TWO terrible new tech stacks meeting.)

> Pi owners should hardly notice any changes, though performance will improve.

Not really — tell that to anyone trying to use a VNC client. The Wayland-based server only supports RSA-AES auth, which not a lot of clients do.

> Pi owners should hardly notice any changes

I always notice when my laptop logs into Wayland instead of X after an Ubuntu upgrade because of the cursed, terrible mouse/trackpad acceleration curves under Wayland.

Long live the native Xorg synpatics driver!

(Also why I wrote this to get trackpad gesture support with the synaptics package instead of switching to the cursed libinput project: https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture and explanation at https://neosmart.net/blog/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux/ )